Money Moral Dilemma: Should I tell my employer my annual leave wasn't deducted?

paddedjohn

torchie wrote: »

Sorry but what else do you call it if it isn’t leave. The last time I heard it called holiday was probably 20+ years ago ...... vacation is very much an American term.

Don't know what part of the country you live but I regularly talk to people from all over the country and have only heard the term holiday and not leave unless I'm talking to forces or merchant lads

Typo22

If you really needed to ask, how on earth have you've managed to hold down a job long enough to earn any holiday? :huh:

Janet_Martin

Yes you should tell them, I was overpaid 2 years ago while I'd been on long term sick I immediately told payroll who insisted it was correct only to be told 3 months later that I'd have to pay it back, so you will be found out.
By the way I work in the public sector and we call it annual leave, used to call it holiday years ago.

limetree

I got my hols floating cos wife was expecting. A few months later hols were there again . I went to office and told them I had already had a fortnight off. Reply was "we don't make mistakes". job done two more weeks never heard anything more.

Ozzuk

This is a moral dilemma? Time to look at your morals!

Skarebear

Actually many fields of work use the term leave around the country. Not sure who you speak to but the use of leave and holidays are both used.
Vacation on the other hand is not used

gaving7095

Of course let your manager know, else expect the mistake to be discovered & rectified later - which will be to your cost.

randalf72

I’m going to go against the grain here and say that ‘it depends’

You need to decide what you want your future relationship to be.

If you seriously don’t care then don’t tell.

Many years ago I had filled in a holiday form (two weeks in Tunisia) and was in the process of taking it into my bosses office to get it approved.

As I entered he asked me to sit down and told me that I was being made redundant and due to my length of service I would get three months notice as well as the government mandated minimum sum from the company.

I was in a daze. I left the office. All thoughts of my holiday gone.

Four weeks later I’m on a beach sunning myself.

When I finally received my redundancy payment I realised that they had credited it with unused holiday entitlement that to be fair I had taken.

I tried to explain but the hr person was insisting I left the site immediately without giving me opportunity.

So I left and kept the cash.

MarcMCFC1986

Anybody who says they would be honest about this and let the company know is a liar.

Next question...

preapproved64

Absolutely not.
I assume the company you work for is big enough to let mistakes like this happen in the first place?
One, they can afford it.
Two, it’s their mistake to fix. Don’t say anything unless they ask, then you can ‘check’ to see if they’re right.
Three, employer loyalty is nonsense in this day and age. If you dropped dead today they’d replace you by next week. Take what you can, give nothing back ✌️