Just to be clear from the outset, this isn’t a nasty dispute with my company or anything. Just looking for confirmation on which side has the wrong idea before I decide how to proceed.
According to my terms of employment, I’m entitled to 10 days annual leave for every year worked, with the only restriction being that you can’t access it during the first six months. After starting last December, ten days were added to my tally in June. Fine, no issues there.
Now that I’ve gone ahead and made travel plans for the end of the year, we suddenly have a problem though. Based on the whole ’10 days per year worked’ scenario, I assumed another 10 days would be added to my tally at the beginning of December, only for HR to tell me it wouldn’t happen until next June. That’s going to leave me 2/3 days short on paid days off, which I’ll just end up wearing if I have to, but is this actually correct?
Irrespective of whether you can access PTO during the first six months, wouldn’t that leave you with only 10 days for an initial 18 month period of work, rather than 12? Also, is this something that each company regulates, or is there legislation that dictates how it should be doled out?
While I’m prepared to take the hit, I’d obviously rather not do that if HR has the wrong idea here.
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If your company is following the letter of the law. Then what you are experiencing is legal.
Although I think next June 11 days should be added to your tally. Ask HR about that..
You were probably on a probationary period during the first six months, so the accruement period for leave days began in June, not December.
The general rule is that your paid holidays are given in this pattern:
After 6 months: 10
After 18 months: 11
After 30 months: 12
After 42 months: 14
After 54 months: 16
After 66 months: 18
After 77 months: 20
From then it’s always 20.
You can save your days for one year, so maximum is 40 with this pattern.
The first 10 days will expire when you get the 12,
the 11 will expire when you get the 14, etc.
Btw. this is all the minimum your company has to give you by law, so they could give you more. They just don’t want to.
Your employer is right. If it were how you think it is, you would theoretically be given 20 days off for the entire year.
My place of employment follows the same policy. The first 10 are handed to you after six months, followed by another 10 one year from that period, and so on.
I believe most companies follow the 6 month period, or else everyone would be taking time off right away. It also is the common trial period duration as well.
Plus, it is common in the states too (restriction period varies) if that is where you are from.
Your company is correct. You will get 11 in June next year. Increasing every year up to a maximum of 20. I forgot what the actual pattern is, but some years you get +2