Moral dilemma number two million and ninety three, what would you do?

[pseudonim]

I've changed my name but don't mind really if anyone recognises me.

I started a new job this year but because I didn't start on Jan 1 my holiday entitlement isn't a full years worth. Today I asked the PA who books holidays if I had enough holiday left to book certain dates and she said yes. But I was standing next to her and saw that she had this in a spreadsheet and was calculating days using a spreadsheet with the full entitlement as a starting point and I actually have 10 days less than this because I didn't start on Jan 1.

As I'm typing I know the answer I suppose, I should own up shouldn't I? Had I emailed (but I didn't!) her instead of going over I'd never have known she was calculating it incorrectly.

But since I do know, should I own up? It almost certainly won't be discovered if I don't.

Thought so

I'd be tempted to keep quiet and be prepared to take it as unpaid leave if they discover the error but in reality I'd feel too guilty and would probably mention in (quietly so as not to get anyone in trouble).

OTOH when I was made redundant they messed up and overpaid by 4 weeks. No prizes for guessing whether or not I told them about that.

Half way house, ask her to confirm you leave entitlement because you not sure what your entitled to annually. Then its her mistake not yours.

Dh works for a govt dept and their his holiday year is from the end of the month on which his birthday falls. As it is a huge govt dept the holiday years are nicely spread out so no mad rush from everyone at the same time to book holidays before the end of the holiday year.

The law on holiday entitlement states that if an organisation does not have a normal holiday year, then each employee's holiday year runs from their start date so definately worth checking when the holiday year starts.