Leave

(1) Category A workers shall be eligible for leave at the following rates– (a) Those with 5 years’ service or more in Category A – 16 working days leave on full pay for every twelve consecutive months of (b) Those with less than 5 years’ service in Category A – 14 working days leave on full pay for every 12 months of employment: Provided that where on termination of any Category A employment there is outstanding a period of less than one year’s service in respect of which leave has not been taken in full, a worker shall be granted leave on full pay calculated as followsLeave due = outstanding period annual entitlement (in days) of service in days X (i.e., 16 or 14 days 365 as the case may be. NOTES (A) Any resulting fraction of a day’s leave is to be disregarded. (B) Any leave actually taken in respect of the period is to be deducted. (C) For the purpose of this regulation, “period of service” means the calendar period and includes Sundays (or other rest days), public holidays and all periods of leave except leave without pay. Belize Constitution 183 EXAMPLE A Category A (a) worker who has taken all leave due to him for periods up to the 31st December last and a further 4 days in the current year, resigns from Government employment with effect from the 18th August. Leave on full pay due to him for the current year is therefore229 x 16 = 10 14/365 365 Entitlement for the current year is therefore 10 days (fraction disregarded) and deducting the 4 days leave already taken there would be a balance of 6 days leave still due (2) Category B (a) A Category B worker shall be eligible for two working weeks annual holiday on full pay, or wages in lieu thereof, in respect of every period of twelve consecutive months during which he has rendered services for the same Department for an aggregate of at least two hundred and fifty days in the case of a worker employed on a weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly basis or at least one hundred and fifty days in the case of a worker employed on any other basis. (b) A Category B worker who has rendered services for the same Department over a total period of more than two months in respect of any periods of twelve consecutive months or less and does not qualify, owing to termination of his employment or otherwise, for annual holiday under the preceding subsection (a) shall be granted proportionate holiday pay calculated as follows184 Belize Constitution Holiday Pay = Total remuneration 26 NOTES (A) Any days of holiday on full pay, or wages in lieu, already granted in respect of the relevant period must be taken into consideration in deciding the amount of holiday pay due. (B) In no case may the amount of holiday pay for twelve consecutive months or less exceed two weeks’ pay at the average daily rate even though the worker may have rendered services for more than 250 or 150 days, as the case may be, or served in more than one Department. (C) For the purpose of this regulation“full pay” means the normal basic wage for one day and in the case of workers employed on a weekly, fortnightly, monthly or annual basis is to be calculated by dividing the normal wage for the period by six, twelve, twenty-six or three hundred and twelve, as the case may be; “total remuneration” means all the basic wages payable to a worker in respect of the relevant period but does not include overtime payments. (3) Leave is normally due after a worker has been employed for 12 consecutive months. A Head of Department may, however, grant leave to a worker who has been employed for a lesser period and shall so arrange that no worker shall work for a longer period than 18 consecutive months without being granted leave. Belize Constitution 185 (4) The Head of Department shall determine the date on which a worker’s leave shall commence and shall give the worker not less than 14 days’ notice of such a date. (5) If a worker becomes ill while on leave granted by his Head of Department, other than leave on termination of his employment, he may be treated as on sick leave for any period he is certified by a registered medical practitioner to be unfit for work and granted a corresponding number of extra days’ leave either to follow the period of leave originally approved or at some other time as the Head of Department may decide. On engagement and return home.