Help with VF, maternity rights & bank hols

Shakethatmoneymaker

Wondering if someone (anyone!) can help.

I've just accepted VR from a civil service job. I have been on maternity leave for a year and my last day of service and my last day of mat leave were the same day so i didn't have to return/ use any holiday.

It was my understanding that during the period of maternity leave i would accuse BH and privilege days (queen's bday etc) and i would be able to take these as A/L if I returned to work. However since I have gone on VR there seems to be a query as to whether i am entitled to be paid these days. They have accepted paying the accused A/L but not the BH & Priv days. My manager has agreed that I wasn't able to take these during the year as I was off on maternity leave. Can anyone advise further on this? Im not sure if they are right or wrong, but obviously want to chase them up if I am owed the days. Thanks very much

Sorry should read VR not VF in title!

cr1mson

Shakethatmoneymaker wrote: »

Wondering if someone (anyone!) can help.

I've just accepted VR from a civil service job. I have been on maternity leave for a year and my last day of service and my last day of mat leave were the same day so i didn't have to return/ use any holiday.

It was my understanding that during the period of maternity leave i would accuse BH and privilege days (queen's bday etc) and i would be able to take these as A/L if I returned to work. However since I have gone on VR there seems to be a query as to whether i am entitled to be paid these days. They have accepted paying the accused A/L but not the BH & Priv days. My manager has agreed that I wasn't able to take these during the year as I was off on maternity leave. Can anyone advise further on this? Im not sure if they are right or wrong, but obviously want to chase them up if I am owed the days. Thanks very much

Sorry should read VR not VF in title!

I think you mean accrue/accrued not accuse/accused!

:rotfl:

Sure some of the legal peeps will put you right but I believe there was a case in the ECJ relatively recently.

C

mildred1978

Shakethatmoneymaker wrote: »

Wondering if someone (anyone!) can help.

I've just accepted VR from a civil service job. I have been on maternity leave for a year and my last day of service and my last day of mat leave were the same day so i didn't have to return/ use any holiday.

It was my understanding that during the period of maternity leave i would accuse BH and privilege days (queen's bday etc) and i would be able to take these as A/L if I returned to work. However since I have gone on VR there seems to be a query as to whether i am entitled to be paid these days. They have accepted paying the accused A/L but not the BH & Priv days. My manager has agreed that I wasn't able to take these during the year as I was off on maternity leave. Can anyone advise further on this? Im not sure if they are right or wrong, but obviously want to chase them up if I am owed the days. Thanks very much

Sorry should read VR not VF in title!

Did you have 3 months on nil pay as part of your mat leave?

Shakethatmoneymaker

Yes I did have 3 months on nil pay at the end.

mildred1978

What was your notice period and when did that happen?

getmore4less

Shakethatmoneymaker wrote: »

Yes I did have 3 months on nil pay at the end.

So you could have stopped maternity early and used the holiday and still not returned to work.

Money would have been the same.

edit : subject to the notice pay situation

getmore4less

mildred1978 wrote: »

What was your notice period and when did that happen?

Good point, notice should be paid in full (subject to the exclusion) so if it ran concurant with the maternity it should have been paid or PILON.

Shakethatmoneymaker

I applied for the redundancy voluntarily and I found out i was accepted on 8 September and the last day of service was 31 October. Er, yes, in theory, could have stopped maternity used accrued leave but hadn't really thought about it like that. Does that mean that I would no longer be entitled to it? Thanks for your help

Shakethatmoneymaker

So during that period (following finding out that I had been successful) I wasn't paid any salary but I was paid a tax refund.

mildred1978

Hmmmmm. I also took VR from the civil service this year while on mat leave. I was actually on SMP when I had the decision, gave up the rest of my SMP (only about 6 weeks) to go back into full pay for my 3 months notice. I didn't get anything extra for leave etc because it was taken during my notice period (in theory). But had I gone back to work for the notice period I would have had to use my accrued leave and BHs during the notice period.

Shakethatmoneymaker

Thanks Mildred. I am wondering if I should just check with the union. My LM accept that I wasn't able to take it, its just getting payroll to deal with it.