J. REQUIREMENT TO WORK DURING ANNUAL LEAVE

Section 2.7 of the Police Officer Handbook

A period of annual leave is defined as a period of absence from duty of 4 or more days, where at least 1 of those days is a day of annual leave and the other days, if not days of annual leave, are rostered rest days, day taken off in lieu of overtime, public holidays (or days taken off in lieu thereof) or monthly leave days, or any combination thereof.

Key Elements:

• Applies to all federated and superintending ranks.
• This compensation cannot be taken as TOIL.
• The above compensation relates to duty on all days during a period of annual leave i.e. annual leave days, TOIL taken during a period of annual leave, rest days, re-rostered rest days, public holidays, and days in lieu of public holidays.
• Additional annual leave days cannot be converted to TOIL or re-rostered rest days.
• A day’s pay to be defined as 8 hours, or the equivalent in respect of officers working alternative shift systems or part-time.
• A day’s annual leave (on a day taken as annual leave) is to be defined as the equivalent of the amount of hours used by the officer.

Example 1:

Officer uses 10 hours of annual leave to take a day of leave which forms part of a period of 4 or more days, but is subsequently required to work on that day of leave. The officer will be entitled to the 10 hours of annual leave they used and 10 hours of annual leave they used and 10 hours pay at double time.

Example 2:

Officer uses 5 hours of annual leave to take a half day of leave which forms part of a period of 4 or more days, but is subsequently required to work on that half day of leave. The officer will be entitled to the 5 hours of annual leave they used and 10 hours’ pay at double time.