EMPLOYEE APPLIED FOR LEAVE BUT STILL HAD TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO COVER HER SHIFT

Am I obliged to find someone to cover me on a day I requested for leave? Context in post

I am a contracted employee working fixed amount of days per week which includes a Saturday. Recently, I worked over the Good Friday which entitles me to an off in-lieu. I asked my HR manager if I could take it on a specific Saturday in May and she asked me to ask my other coworker if she could cover me as I work alone in another mobile location.

Previously, I took a 2.5-day no pay leave after getting the same coworker to help cover me. And for that, I also had to ask the coworker myself. I have a “senior” teaching role in the enrichment industry. Inverted commas because, they give it to anyone who has worked there beyond a year and ask for a pay increase. I don’t get paid for no pay leaves or MC.

My coworker mentioned that it is not legal for a manager to ask an employee to find a cover. But I can’t find the information on that so I took it with a grain of salt.

I find it weird that I have to find someone to cover me instead of my HR manager managing the roster in which we do have weekend part timers to bolster gaps if someone in the main workplace has to go on leave. Am I really obliged to find a cover to claim my off in-lieu or any leave that I ask for at least 3 weeks in advance?

Thanks

Netizens’ comments

1. I feel the onus should be on the manager to find someone to cover for you. You are owed an off in lieu, you should be able to clear it with no strings attached.
   The manager is just lazy and trying to pass the buck off to you.
2. Ensuring that the work is covered is literally the human resource manager’s job.
   Off the top of my head I doubt that it’s illegal to ask you to help find cover… but anyhow your employer can’t exactly deny you your off-in-lieu break even if you can’t arrange for cover.