[Olog-hai]

Misleading headline. The “right” thereof seems to have to do with survivors claiming unused vacation pay.

[NYFriend]

I think this is true in th US too. The pay for accrued vacation days belongs to the worker, and I suspect it passes to the estate if the worker dies. At my job it falls under “terminal leave” which we occasionally have to explain to new people doesn’t usually have anything to do with death. Depending on leave rules, vacation days can be worth a lot.

[muir_redwoods]

I know of a teacher whose baby is due in late June. She wants her twelve weeks of maternity leave to begin in September. The union is backing her.

[Gay State Conservative]

In Massachusetts one routinely hears stories of government hacks who,after 40 years of sitting on their a$$es collecting obscene salaries,retire with a huge pension *and* a severance check for hundreds and hundreds of days of unused sick leave and vacation time.

My emploters have always had a policy which stated that once a vacation day was earned that day,or its salary equivalent,belonged to you.

[Vermont Lt]

The employee, or their heir have the right to collect monies earned or accrued.

This is not groundbreaking news.

Perhaps the UK is still climbing out of the Middle Ages.