Annual leave

Q. I have had to return from annual leave to attend court, what can I claim?

A. You will be entitled to the following:

• Recalled for one day or two days - an additional two days’ annual leave for each day recalled or one day’s annual leave and one days pay at double time, for each day.
• Recalled for three days or more - as above for the first two days then 1½ days’ annual leave or one day’s annual leave and half day’s pay at double time in lieu of each such day recalled thereafter.
• Regulation 33 covers the above. Annex 0, Paragraph 5(a) of Police Regulations and Determinations 2003, which goes on to say under Paragraph 5(b).
• This paragraph applies to a period of absence from duty of three or more days, where at least one of the days is a day of annual leave and the other days, if not days of annual leave, are rostered rest days, days taken in lieu of over-time, public holidays (or days taken off in lieu thereof) or monthly leave days, or any combination thereof.
• Under Paragraph 5(c) the above compensation also not only applies to officers actually recalled from annual leave, but also to annual leave that has been pre-booked/scheduled.