Annual leave owed

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Hi there I'm due to retire at the end of this year.
I'm owed 2 weeks of A/L which I've asked to be paid for.
I'm a frontline nurse and was unable o take leave last year for obvious reasons. We were allowed to carry over much more leave than usual or to sell it.
My Manager
(who is unbearable) has said he doesn't know if he can pay me - he will need to "explore " this. I'm a manager and have paid staff for untaken leave before so can he do this or do I have to lose the leave?

Should be automatic in NHS.

Leave is automatically paid if you haven't taken it and you leave the business.

Thankyou both so much - I was thinking I'm going mad I just need to be assertive with him

Speak to payroll. You don't have to go through your manager to correct your leave date, they'll be able to see your remaining AL and make suitable arrangements. Otherwise, can you book the leave in now?

I'd rather not take the leave as I need to handover and also there's a leaving party fir me which I'd have to come back fir. Plus I would like the cash- it would pay fir Xmas

they may be able to make you take the annual leave, but probably don't want you to take from 24th december if you are due to retire on 31st dec and you have 10 days owing there are only 21- 23 working days assuming a 5 day week despite some of these days being weekends
as frontline
if they won't pay you for your holiday owed you need to take it but they can't refuse to allow you to take A/L owed and also refuse to pay you for it , you either have to be paid for those 10 days or allowed to take the 10 days or some combination

Thank you all
Fir your advice.
I think it's all ok now