3 Year Incentive Career Break

[missbudget]

Hello
I applied for the Dept of Finance's special 3 year career break incentive when it was advertised in my workplace back in August. It was originally introduced in the Budget in April 2009. After 10 long weeks of waiting and wondering my application was finally declined last Friday.
I am very shocked about this as I was under the impression that the country and the Minister for Finance were trying to reduce the Public Sector pay. I was declined as the director of my department strongly opposed my leaving.
I have one chance to appeal this. I work in a university and so will be appealing to the university president.
Does anyone have any advice on places/ people I could contact to support my appeal? or even any thoughts on how to word my appeal. It seems bizarre that my workplace are not following the government guidelines on reducing public sector pay. I am not in a union in my workplace so any advice would be appreciated.

 

[tiger]

I don't know how these things work, but is it possible he's thinking ahead to the Dec budget?
Expecting to be told to cut X cost/Y staff, based on current numbers. In which case it will be much easier to leave in a couple of months time?

 

[dereko1969]

It's up to each agency/department etc to use the career break scheme as they see fit though I would have thought that most would accept most applications.

Your best bet is to ask the University's HR section how many applications they have received for the break and how many have been refused/granted, this could enable you to highlight that you are being singled out for different treatment.

Has your application been refused point blank? Could you modify it to seek a later start to the career break for example next Summer?