Leave use-promotion: first written notice, general annual leave
This is a procedure that changes who owes money, so its dates are not administrative detail. Employers routinely apply the general schedule to first-year employees, whose timetable is different and shorter — which invalidates the promotion and leaves the unused-leave pay owing. The figure also needs watching rather than memorising: an amendment of 9 June 2026 carries provisions that do not commence until 10 June 2027, so guidance describing the later position is not the rule in force.
- Applies to
- Employers running the statutory use-promotion procedure, which if valid removes the duty to pay for unused leave
- Review cadence
- Checked once a year
What we have recorded
- 2026-09-196 months before expiry
General annual leave: within 10 days of the point six months before the leave period ends, the employer notifies the employee in writing of the unused days and asks them to fix dates; if the employee does not reply within 10 days, the employer designates the dates in writing by two months before the period ends. First-year leave runs on its own shorter timetable — first notice keyed to three months before the first year ends, employer designation by one month before — with a further compressed schedule for days that accrue after the first notice.
Labor Standards Act, art. 61
One reading so far. This becomes a history the first time the figure moves while we are watching — which is the part that cannot be reconstructed later.
Guides that depend on this figure
When this figure moves, every guide above needs the same edit. That is why it is tracked here rather than copied into each one.