Holidays/Maternity Leave

[kirstyr3892]

Hoping someone can clarify this for me...

I'm due to start my maternity leave on 1st October. Will be taking a year off, but I'm not planning to return to work with my current employer. I haven't told them this, but I'll only be receiving statutory pay so no issue with having to pay anything back.

I'll obviously be accruing holidays while I'm off. I'm happy to either take them before I leave and finish earlier in September, or be paid for them, which I'm guessing would be at the end of the financial year?

But I've now read that they can carry them over for me into the next year. Can I refuse this or is it their choice? Obviously I don't want them carrying over if I'm not planning on coming back.

TIA

You’d need to carry them over if you want to be paid for them. You can only receive pay in lieu of annual leave when your employment terminates. Otherwise you have to physically take it.

@flowery thanks for the reply.

So when I speak to my employer next week I need to request I take them before I leave? And if she says she'll carry them over, I'd have to tell her I won't be coming back?

No.

If you want to take all or some of them before you go, put in a holiday request for the dates you want.

Any days you don’t take before you go will be carried over. If you don’t then return, they’ll be paid to you at that point. You don’t need to tell anyone that yet.

Take your mat leave as planned.

When you resign at the end you will get a payment for all unused accrued leave.

No don't tel them you're leaving! When it gets to end of mat leave and you resign, you'll get paid for them then

Oh ok that clears it up! Thank you all