Too much leave makes the bureaucrats nervous for two reasons:
1) OHS standards dictate that you have so much time off in a given time period, and if you're not taking it, you're on the process towards burnout, which means more paperwork, and (possibly more importantly)
2) your leave entitlements are covered by your department. When your pay is calculated (from your department's budget), your leave entitlement pay goes into a different account and is counted as a debt to the department. They hate holding debts. So they make you take the annual leave to keep the debt amount down.
Long Service Leave entitlement pay is kept in a different bucket by the Chancellory for the whole university, and is accounted for differently, so they don't care if you take it or not.
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1) OHS standards dictate that you have so much time off in a given time period, and if you're not taking it, you're on the process towards burnout, which means more paperwork, and (possibly more importantly)
2) your leave entitlements are covered by your department. When your pay is calculated (from your department's budget), your leave entitlement pay goes into a different account and is counted as a debt to the department. They hate holding debts. So they make you take the annual leave to keep the debt amount down.
Long Service Leave entitlement pay is kept in a different bucket by the Chancellory for the whole university, and is accounted for differently, so they don't care if you take it or not.