Leaving work: Annual leave pay when on employer subsidy

adocholiday

Hi all,


I have been put onto the employer subsidy payment and told I don't need to attend work. There's large demand in my field so I'm going to look for something else immediately. I have about 9 days annual leave accrued for the year so far. If I hand in my notice is my employer required to pay me full salary equivalent for those days once I hand in my notice?

You know you don’t accrue AL while you are off during pandemic?

adocholiday

Technically I'm still employed so I do according to my employer. I'm not in receipt of the Covid 19 emergency payment, my employer is passing the employer subsidy payment onto me but not requiring me to attend work.

And even in the event that the above isn't true, I still have 8 days of annual leave accrued from before the shut down.

adocholiday

adocholiday wrote: »

Technically I'm still employed so I do according to my employer. I'm not in receipt of the Covid 19 emergency payment, my employer is passing the employer subsidy payment onto me but not requiring me to attend work.

And even in the event that the above isn't true, I still have 8 days of annual leave accrued from before the shut down.

You don’t accrue AL while laid off during pandemic, even if registered for subsidy and being paid by employer. If your employer wants to give the days to you, fair do’s, but he is not required to.


https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_rights_during_covid19_restrictions.html

adocholiday

Ok fair enough then they are doing that by choice! However the question remains as to whether or not I am entitled to full pay for my accrued days in the event of leaving the company while on the subsidy payment. That article says you can take annual leave while on the scheme but no mention of the payment entitlements.

Yes, you are entitled to be full pay for AL accrued before you were laid off. If you accrued 8 days before shutdown, it would indicate that you have 32 days AL per year, 12 over statutory entitlement, is this correct? (Unless the 8 includes unused AL carried over from last yr).

adocholiday

So to be clear my employer only shut down part of its operations last week so that's when I became affected so I have been accruing AL for 4 full months. I accrue 2 days per month so I was taking 2 days x 4 months = 8 days + probably 2 or 3 more days given a 4 week notice period depending on if and when I get something new.

Thanks!