Pregnancy and annual leave

[Mrsmch123]

Hi I'm entitled to 28 days of annual per year. Due to Covid I will be suspended on full pay from 28 weeks. The expectation is that your mat leave will start 4 weeks before your due date.
My annual leave year starts in April.
I will be medically suspended in the first week of April therefore what will happen about my annual leave from 21/22 year as by the time I return it will be into June 2022 as I plan on taking the full year so will be into another years annual leave.

I will ask hr but it just popped into my head.

Thanks in advance😃

Usually you take it as a block before you return, so your last month and half of mat leave is annual leave

Your employer might ask you to take some before 28 weeks or allow you to carry it over and use up upon your return.

Can I just clarify dates?

Week 1 of April = your 28th week of pregnancy and you will be automatically put on leave with full pay?

Due back to work April 2022 having taken 1 year of annual leave, and will have accrued a years worth of leave?

Due to covid I'm not sure what your employer would do about your annual leave, but you certainly cannot be penalised for being pregnant and you cannot be treated any differently to non pregnant employees.

Is there any element of your employment that can be done from home? If so, make it known that you are happy to be a work from home employee between April 1st and your due date.

I work for NHS my 28th week falls 1st June but I will be WFH so my boss told me that mat leave starts at 36weeks 1st Aug and I can take A/L before that so will take around 3 weeks of my pro rata A/L from April 2021 to July 2021 and leave work on 2nd week of July. If I didn't take the 2021 A/L before mat leave I would only be allowed to carry 20 days pro rata to 2022 so better to use the leave. After 1 year of mat leave I will have accrued another 1 years worth of mat leave which I will add to the end of mat leave in 2022.
Hope this helps.

Every company will have different rules but by law you are entitled to use A/L due or be paid for it, NHS wont pay for A/L so needs to be used.

Sorry accrued another 1 year of A/L while on Mat leave.

They may ask you to use A/L before medical suspension or in leu of medical suspension, unless you can WFH?

I work for the NHS and from 28 weeks I have to be non patient facing.
Before it changed, I was going to save all my leave from 21/22 to use June 2022 at the end of maternity leave which means I'd be back July 2022.