Civil service maternity leave/holiday - Help!

[SunflowerOwl]

I was hoping any other civil servants would be able to help me work all this out as the policy documents I've been given are absolute rubbish!

I'm taking a full year off, and I want to start my official mat leave on my due date in august but take all my holiday (have 30 days left so 6 weeks before). However apparently if my baby arrives early my mat leave will start the next day even if I'm on annual leave. Does anybody know what happens to all my holiday in that situation? If I'm 2 weeks early do I lose 2 weeks of my holiday allowance?

I cant really do it the other way around ie start mat leave early and tack holiday on to the end of it as I cant carry enough days over and my ML spans 2 holiday years.

Any advice gratefully received

Thanks

If you can’t add it on the end they’ll you pay for them.

They'll pay you or carry the leave over

In my LA you'd be allowed to carry it over and then use it as soon as possible after your return from maternity. We only pay PILOH to leavers or in very exceptional circumstances where it was impossible for the leave to be taken.

Hi

I was in the same situation and had an immense amount of leave. They simply transferred it over to the next leave year. My line manager authorised the transfer. It is is totally normal to request this in maternity leave cases and HR rules allow it when there is good reason such as maternity leave.

You will still be amassing leave while on mat leave. So they might have to transfer some time anyway. My suggestion is to save as much as you can to add at the other end. It will be more useful then as it might save you childcare costs and give you more time with the baby on full pay.