I have this vision that the weather next summer will be super and all of us civil servants will be on unpaid leave. Imagine how that will be spun!
Anyway, according to lunch time news the government seems to be back tracking so it might not happen.
Civil Service Annual Leave
Secretary 31 days
Deputy Secretary 31 days
Assistant Secretary 31 days
Principal (standard scale) 29 days
Assistant Principal (standard scale) 29 days
Administrative Officer 21 days, rising to 26 days after 5 years' service
Higher Executive Officer 26 days
Executive Officer 20 days, rising to 21 days after 5 years' service
Staff Officer 21 days
Clerical Officer 20 days
Services Officer 20 days
Services Attendant 20 days
Civil Service Annual Leave
Secretary 31 days
Deputy Secretary 31 days
Assistant Secretary 31 days
Principal (standard scale) 29 days
Assistant Principal (standard scale) 29 days
Administrative Officer 21 days, rising to 26 days after 5 years' service
Higher Executive Officer 26 days
Executive Officer 20 days, rising to 21 days after 5 years' service
Staff Officer 21 days
Clerical Officer 20 days
Services Officer 20 days
Services Attendant 20 days
I agree. I get 20 days a year and it's a struggle to take them all.I know this is off-topic but this is part of the problem with the PS in my opinion...the more senior you are the more leave you get. I would have thought that the more senior you are the more you are needed to make sure your area runs better....
Firefly;969660 I would have thought that the more senior you are the more you are needed to make sure your area runs better....[/quote said:Is this unpaid leave include higher civil servants such as judges , politicians etc?
Can't imagine the Dail not sitting for 12 fewer days next year.
one thing struck me about this unpaid leave business, particularly for nurses - I suspect they'll all get hired back in as agency nurses at double the cost when the wards are short staff, so where's the gain?
What is annoying as a parent of national school students is the refusal of teachers unions to take the 12 days during their 20+ WEEKS holidays.
Perhaps, the school year can be extended by 12 days or to UK levels?
"Unpaid leave" makes it seem like its some sort of benefit to the employee!
Could someone claify which of the following the situation is/will be please.
1) 12 days unpaid leave on top of the leave already entitled too ie;26 days plus 12
2) 12 days unpaid leave taken out of the leave already entitled too?ie;26 days minus 12?
If it were the second there would be no need for any overtime,extra workers being drafted in etc..it would get my vote anyway..if I could vote ..
Does that include so called “privilege days”?
A friend of mine works in an IT and he said that with flexi-days, holidays and the weeks that the place is closed over Christmas, he gets 54 days a year off.
I know this is off-topic but this is part of the problem with the PS in my opinion...the more senior you are the more leave you get. I would have thought that the more senior you are the more you are needed to make sure your area runs better....
The media can put a spin on anything and the public will fall for it.
So workers being locked out by their employers and not paid are now on "unpaid annual leave"?
Are all the people who are on short weeks due to their employers being in financial difficulties also on "unpaid leave" on the days they dont work? Are unemployed people on permanent "unpaid leave"?
Essentially whats happening in the PS is that employees are being e.g. forced to go onto a 4 day week for 12 weeks. Its short time working and should be referred to as such. "Unpaid leave" makes it seem like its some sort of benefit to the employee!
Does that include so called “privilege days”?
A friend of mine works in an IT and he said that with flexi-days, holidays and the weeks that the place is closed over Christmas, he gets 54 days a year off.
weeks that the place is closed over Christmas
Flexi days are not leave, they are hours worked in advance and taken off in one block. How many times does this have to be explained!
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