Retiring from the NHS/ Annual Leave

bujin

Hi We can obviously follow this up with our employer, but we're wondering about retiring from the NHS. My OH will retire in the June, he'll get a months wage in arrears, we're not sure how the Annual Leave entitlement works,though.

In otherwords he's entitled at present to about 42 days Annual Leave including BH's. When you enter a new year in April you obviously gain the new entitlement, but what happens if you're retiring in June, is it worked out per month at that stage or are you entitled to you full years entitlement (I doubt it ), thought it was worth a check.
Hope that makes sense!

SarEl

Your doubts are entirely correct! You are entitled to the pro rata amount April to his retirement date.

CruisingSaver

Just to add that it is calculated on full months as well. So if he retires on any day other than 30th June, then June will not count in the pro-rata calculation.

Mudd14

You accrue holiday on all work so you will accrue holiday by the day/hour/minute not just full months. So the proportion of June would count in the calculation.

mlp

Local Government only counts full months for leave entitlement purposes, so I wouldn't be surprised if NHS was the same.

mildred1978

mlp wrote: »

Local Government only counts full months for leave entitlement purposes, so I wouldn't be surprised if NHS was the same.

A whole month doesn't just run from the beginning and end of one month though. The 15th April to the 14th May is a month

mildred1978

CruisingSaver wrote: »

Just to add that it is calculated on full months as well. So if he retires on any day other than 30th June, then June will not count in the pro-rata calculation.

Utter rubbish.

SarEl

mlp wrote: »

Local Government only counts full months for leave entitlement purposes, so I wouldn't be surprised if NHS was the same.

If it does where you work they are breaking the law! Most local government calculates all leave by the hour and only expresses actual leave entitlement by the hour (not in full days - even for full -time employees).

LittleVoice

Mudd14 wrote: »

You accrue holiday on all work so you will accrue holiday by the day/hour/minute not just full months. So the proportion of June would count in the calculation.

NHS (and local authority) employees are fortunate in that they receive more than the statutory minimum amount of paid leave. The employer can therefore choose to apportion holiday on complete calendar month only basis - as long as by so doing the employee receives a full entitlement to statutory holiday for the part month (which will be the case because of the extra organisational holiday entitlement).

SarEl

LittleVoice wrote: »

NHS (and local authority) employees are fortunate in that they receive more than the statutory minimum amount of paid leave. The employer can therefore choose to apportion holiday on complete calendar month only basis - as long as by so doing the employee receives a full entitlement to statutory holiday for the part month (which will be the case because of the extra organisational holiday entitlement).

No they can't. They must fulfill their contractual obligations. That is what contracts are for.

mlp

Contractual obligation (for me) is 29 days plus statutory holidays. In the case of termination of employment, only whole months of service are used when calculating leave entitlement.

It's all there in my contract / leave arranagements policy. If it's illegal then the three unions with representation in the authority aren't doing a very good job!

I consider that to be fair and as someone else said, it's far in excess of statutory minimum and only left-wing militant union members need moan about it.