I am due back from a years mat leave in February and have decided it's not the right thing to do. If I formally resign in a couple of weeks time, which is just within the notice period of one month, I won't have to return at all. I will have accrued about 27 days of annual leave by that point as I went on mat leave just before the start of a new A/L year. Will they make me "use it" before I resign, or will they have to pay me for it? Obviously it would be quite nice to have nearly a months pay... but seems a bit too good to be true, I can see them making me use it to cover my notice period. Does anyone know?
Also I only claimed SMP as I did have a feeling that I wouldn't be returning, so shouldn't have anything to pay back in terms of mat pay.