Giving a week's notice then requesting to use two days of annual leave

testings

Tomorrow I will be resigning from my job, due to personal difficulties. My contract requires that I give a week's notice - my job is a fixed term position, doing basic clerical/administration stuff in the public sector. Furthermore, by the end of the month I'll have accrued two days of annual leave, and I'd really like to use these days on Monday and Tuesday of next week, therefore effectively reducing my notice period to three days (I'm guessing that, even if I were to hand in my notice first thing tomorrow morning, it still wouldn't be counted as a full day of notice, so the notice period will run from Wednesday), as I don't think I'd be able to deal with my job beyond the end of this week.

I understand that the law permits me to use annual leave in this way (so long as my manager is okay with it), and I've checked my contract and it states, "[o]n termination of your employment you shall be entitled to annual leave with pay or payment in lieu thereof based on your length of service in that leave year less any leave already taken", so in theory it's possible. I just feel kind of bad. Even though I'm only required to give a week's notice, a week isn't enough time in which to employ and train my replacement, and my department is short-staffed as it is, so reducing this to three days could be messy. And yet, I need to consider my well-being too.

I guess what I'd like to ask is - is there any real chance I'll be able to use these two days of annual leave? My manager is very reasonable, and we're on good terms, but I just don't know whether this sort of thing is ever done, or whether even just asking (and making it clear I'll be okay with whatever my manager decides) will probably result in ill feeling.

Takeaway_Addict

testings wrote: »

Tomorrow I will be resigning from my job, due to personal difficulties. My contract requires that I give a week's notice - my job is a fixed term position, doing basic clerical/administration stuff in the public sector. Furthermore, by the end of the month I'll have accrued two days of annual leave, and I'd really like to use these days on Monday and Tuesday of next week, therefore effectively reducing my notice period to three days (I'm guessing that, even if I were to hand in my notice first thing tomorrow morning, it still wouldn't be counted as a full day of notice, so the notice period will run from Wednesday), as I don't think I'd be able to deal with my job beyond the end of this week.

I understand that the law permits me to use annual leave in this way (so long as my manager is okay with it), and I've checked my contract and it states, "[o]n termination of your employment you shall be entitled to annual leave with pay or payment in lieu thereof based on your length of service in that leave year less any leave already taken", so in theory it's possible. I just feel kind of bad. Even though I'm only required to give a week's notice, a week isn't enough time in which to employ and train my replacement, so reducing this to three days could be messy, and my department is short-staffed as it is. And yet, I need to consider my well-being too.

I guess what I'd like to ask is - is there any real chance I'll be able to use these two days of annual leave? My manager is very reasonable, and we're on good terms, but I just don't know whether this sort of thing is ever done, or whether even just asking (and making it clear I'll be okay with whatever my manager decides) will probably result in ill feeling.

Just ask and they will say yes or no. It really depends on the needs of the business at that time. If as you say they are short staffed then it might be refused.

getmore4less

testings wrote: »

Furthermore, by the end of the month I'll have accrued two days of annual leave,


you accrue holiday from day one and prorata, if statutory 12.07% of the days worked.
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Even though I'm only required to give a week's notice, a week isn't enough time in which to employ and train my replacement, and my department is short-staffed as it is, so reducing this to three days could be messy.

That's the companies problem if they need more than a week to replace people they should include longer notice.

BillJones

getmore4less wrote: »

That's the companies problem if they need more than a week to replace people they should include longer notice.

This is true, but they are under no obligation then to allow the OP to take their holiday allowance during their week's notice period.

Nicki

If OP is suffering from stress related ill health to the extent that they cannot manage to work beyond the end of the week, they can of course self certify sick for 2 days and forego the sick pay (as they won't exceed the 3 day qualifying period).

BillJones

Nicki wrote: »

If OP is suffering from stress related ill health to the extent that they cannot manage to work beyond the end of the week, they can of course self certify sick for 2 days and forego the sick pay (as they won't exceed the 3 day qualifying period).

There is zero suggestion that this is the case, so why would you bring it up?

tomtontom

Nicki wrote: »

If OP is suffering from stress related ill health to the extent that they cannot manage to work beyond the end of the week, they can of course self certify sick for 2 days and forego the sick pay (as they won't exceed the 3 day qualifying period).

If this is the case, I'm struggling to understand how they could manage the first three days, but not the final two?

Nicki

BillJones wrote: »

There is zero suggestion that this is the case, so why would you bring it up?

The OP said they don't think they can cope with working beyond the end of the week, and also that they need to put their own wellbeing first. I understood that to mean they were suffering stress related ill health. What did you take it to mean?

ohreally

Nicki wrote: »

The OP said they don't think they can cope with working beyond the end of the week, and also that they need to put their own wellbeing first. I understood that to mean they were suffering stress related ill health.

Wow.

You certainly have a highly developed sense of perception.

Nicki

ohreally wrote: »

Wow.

You certainly have a highly developed sense of perception.

Advice was offered if that was the case if you bothered to read the post. If it isn't then clearly it doesn't apply but something is clearly going on with the OP to mean they need to leave work very quickly. Not sure why everyone is so hostile to appropriate advice being given!

BillJones

Nicki wrote: »

The OP said they don't think they can cope with working beyond the end of the week

No, they did not. Please, if you want to coyly suggest that they fraudulently claim mental illness, just come out and say so.

Of course, you'll now pretend that you weren't doing so at all, as you really can "sense" it trough them not mentioning anything about it...