Taking Annual Leave. 29.3.1 The Employer and Employee shall seek to reach agreement on a mutually convenient time (having regard to overall operational and staffing requirements of the Company) for annual leave to be taken by the Employee. Where such agreement, cannot be reached, the Employer may fix a time for an Employee’s annual leave to be taken within a period of six (6) months or less from the date when the right to take annual leave has accrued, after giving at least fourteen (14) days’ notice to the Employee.
29.3.2 An Employee is required to provide at least one (1) months’ notice of a request to take annual leave however, final approval shall lie with the Company.
29.3.3 At the Company’s discretion, it may allow an Employee to take annual leave before the right to take it has accrued, but where such leave is taken, a further period of leave shall not commence to accrue until after the expiration of the twelve (12) months service that was required to accrue the right to take the annual leave. Where annual leave or part thereof has been granted before the right to take it has accrued and the Employee subsequently leaves before completing the required twelve (12) months service, and the amount paid by the Employer to the Employee for the annual leave taken exceeds the amount the Employer is required to pay to the Employee on termination, the Employer shall not be liable to make any payment to the Employee for annual leave and shall be entitled to deduct the amount of excess from any remuneration payable to the Employee upon termination of employment.
29.3.4 Where an Employee has more than eight (8) weeks annual leave entitlement accrued to them, the Company may direct the Employee to take annual leave by providing a minimum four (4) weeks’ notice in writing to the employee. Such direction shall only apply to a maximum of one quarter of the leave credits owing to the employee.
29.3.5 The Company may direct Employees to take any accrued annual leave during the Company’s annual close down (i.e., Christmas/New Year period). Employees that do not apply for leave during this period may be required to take annual leave. Where Employees have not yet accrued such annual leave, the leave taken shall be treated as Leave without Pay. The business will provide a minimum of 2 months notice about this closure each year.
29.3.6 If a public holiday (as prescribed in this Agreement) falls within an Employee's annual leave and, is on a day which would have been an nominal working day, the...
Taking Annual Leave. (a) Any employee may take paid annual leave if sufficient annual leave has been credited to that employee and the employer has authorised the leave being taken.
Taking Annual Leave. (1) An employee may, on application approved by the Secretary, take annual leave in either of the following ways:
(a) at full pay;
(b) at half pay (that is, by taking 2 days leave at the rate of one‑half of the normal salary of the employee for every day of annual leave credit).
(2) Where an AGS employee takes annual leave at half pay, any allowance will be paid at half pay rate during that leave.
Taking Annual Leave a. Employees must obtain approval from the delegated manager before taking annual leave. Approval will be subject to the business and operational needs of the Company, however, approval will not be unreasonably withheld.
b. Where agreement cannot be reached through initial discussions with an employee, the Company may direct an employee to take up to ¼ of their total annual leave if they have accumulated more than 2 years’ accrual of annual leave. In such situations, employees will be given at least 14 days’ notice.
Taking Annual Leave. The taking of annual leave will be by mutual agreement between the Employer and employee.
Taking Annual Leave construction site employee ▪ In addition to the provisions of clause 3.1.4, the following applies to the construction site employee. - An employee is entitled to three consecutive weeks of annual leave in the summer, on the condition that the employee has accrued sufficient annual leave to cover this period. Insofar as possible, at the employee’s request the employer sets the dates of this annual leave before 1 December of the year prior to the year in which this leave falls. - If the construction site employee is required to take annual leave during a period when the company is scheduled to be closed (i.e. collective annual leave), the employee is entitled to take an additional three consecutive weeks of annual leave, assuming the employee has accrued sufficient annual leave/scheduled paid days off to cover this period as well.
Taking Annual Leave general ▪ The basic principle is that the employee first takes the days of statutory annual leave and then any days of contractual annual leave. ▪ The employer will schedule the periods of annual leave taking into account the employee’s wishes. The employer may only deviate from the employee’s wishes if: - the employee taking annual leave at that time would endanger the continuity of the business and - the employer has informed the employee in writing within two weeks of the employee requesting leave that leave is not being granted at the desired time.
Taking Annual Leave uta employee ▪ In addition to the provisions of clause 3.1.4, the uta employee must take at least three consecutive weeks’ annual leave if this is necessary in the interests of the company. This is arranged in consultation between the employer and the employee.
Taking Annual Leave. 22.6.1 The Parties recognise the benefits of ensuring Employees utilise annual leave and will encourage leave to be taken by Employees as leave accrues to prevent excess accumulation.
22.6.2 All employees are expected to take their annual leave entitlement in the year following, when it accrues.
22.6.3 A newly appointed VSE is exempt from the yearly leave plan in the first 12 months. A VSE may participate in the yearly leave plan in the first year and apply for leave based on actual accruals.
22.6.4 Once leave has been approved it cannot be cancelled, other than by agreement. Agreement will not be unreasonably withheld where operational necessity exists.
22.6.5 For clarity, if a public holiday falls during a FSEs annual leave where they would normally have been rostered on a Saturday or Sunday, and a public holiday falls on that Saturday or Sunday, they will be entitled to a DIL.
Taking Annual Leave. Accrued annual leave entitlements shall be taken within six months of the employee’s service anniversary unless agreed otherwise with the company. Where an employee has failed to arrange to take leave in accordance with this provision, the company may require the employee to take the leave by giving of at least 8 weeks’ notice.
