Annual Leave Uplift—Support Staff
The outcome of the support staff 2020 pay award included amendments to the minimum annual leave terms—increasing this from 21 to 22 days. This award was due in April but was delayed significantly by protracted national negotiations. Recent Annual Leave Guidance from NJC has confirmed the award and how this should be applied. For the majority of WeST colleagues the minimum entitlement to 22 days has already been met by current provisions. However, for some colleagues this has meant changes to Term Time staff pay calculations and All Year Round (52 week) annual leave entitlements. As WeST works within the boundaries of 3 different local authorities, each with slightly different terms, only certain schools will be affected.
If staff are working under Plymouth and Cornwall legacy terms, the statutory annual leave entitlement has already been met and therefore no change is required.
If staff are working under Devon legacy terms, Term Time staff will have an additional day factored into their pay. All Year Round (52 week) staff are now entitled to 1 additional leave day.
This change is in effect now and will be backdated to 1 April 2020. Those staff on all year round contracts within Devon legacy terms will need to plan when the additional leave day can be taken before the end of the leave year (March 2021) with their line manager.
Payroll have already been informed of these changes, therefore affected staff will receive backdated pay in the December pay run.
A more detailed guidance document is available from the WeST HR team and has recently been shared with senior administrators / business managers for reference.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the HR Team via HR@westst.org.uk