In a given year if an employee takes 26 weeks ordinary maternity leave, how much holiday does she get for the other half of the year, do you give her 50% of the usual holiday entitlement?
Or does the law require she gets the whole years entitlement to take in half a year!
Does anybody know?
Thanks,
James
Ps Our employment contracts just say its 20 days a year with no mention of maternity leave etc.
James McLean
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Just to more explicit
Steven is correct.
If the employee takes 26 weeks maternity leave in a year she is still entiled to a full year's holiday entitlement. The situation is just the same with sick leave, but maternity leave tends to make the situation more obvious.