Please refer to the Request for absence page to learn how to request leave from work.
Enhanced Leave gives Regular Service personnel who have completed 15 years of service the opportunity to apply to take an extended block of 50 days leave in one continuous period in lieu of their 30 days Annual Leave Allowance (8 days’ Annual Leave must be retained for public holidays).
Please refer to the Enhanced leave page for further information and details of how to apply.
Call Forward of Leave enables you to call (or bring) forward up to 10 days leave of your Annual Leave Allowance from the upcoming leave year into the current leave year.
Please refer to the Call forward of leave page for more information and details of how to apply.
Transfer of Leave enables you to apply to transfer up to 10 days’ leave, from your annual leave allowance, to your spouse or registered civil partner if they are also a Service person. This limit is extended to 15 days if you are assigned to an Operational Tour of six months or longer and if you have accrued, or expect to accrue, an aggregated total of at least 180 days separated service during a leave year.
Please refer to the Transfer of leave page for more information on how to apply.
Special Paid Leave may be taken:
- when you are engaged in paid activities such as sport at national level or cultural events
- when your entry into or exit from any stage of military training is delayed and it is not possible to find suitable employment and/or accommodation for you
- to sit civil examinations, with the agreement of your Commanding Officer
Please refer to the Special paid leave page for further information on how to apply.
Your Commanding Officer can authorise up to four weeks of Compassionate Leave, although two weeks is normally sufficient. Only in exceptional circumstances and following a re-evaluation of the situation should Compassionate Leave exceed 4 weeks.
Please refer to the Compassionate leave page for information on how to apply.
Special Unpaid Leave is a period of absence of up to 93 days at any one time, which cannot be given as special paid or compassionate leave. Authority to grant Special Unpaid Leave rests with Commanding Officers.
For information on how to apply, please refer to Special unpaid leave.
A Career Intermission enables Regular servicemen and women to take a specified period of unpaid time out of your Service career and provides a mechanism for your return to the Service.
Please refer to Career intermission for more information and details of how to apply.
Please refer to Authorised Self Certified Sickness Absence (SCSA) for guidance on submitting on JPA.
Ordinary paternity leave is designed to give you time to care for a newborn or newly adopted child, and to help support the child’s biological or adoptive mother.
You are entitled to 2 weeks of Paternity Leave, which can be taken consecutively or as 2 separate weeks, provided that all Paternity Leave is taken within 56 days of the child’s birth or placement for adoption.
Please refer to Ordinary paternity leave for information on how to apply.
As a Service person, you’re entitled to up to 52 weeks of maternity leave, whatever your length of service. You may also be eligible for 39 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), the first 26 weeks of which may be enhanced to your full pay rate.
Please refer to Maternity leave for further information including details on how to apply.
Shared Parental Leave gives you more flexibility in considering how best to share the care of your child in the first year following birth or adoption. It can only be used by the child’s 2 parents.
Please refer to the Shared Parental leave page for further information on how to quality for leave and how to apply.
All qualifying Service personnel, regardless of their length of service, are entitled to take up to 52 weeks of adoption leave.
Please refer to Adoption leave for more information including how to apply.
Parental leave is designed to give you more time to look after the welfare of your children. It can be used to spend more time with a child, settle them into new childcare arrangements, visit potential new schools, or to accompany a child during a hospital stay.
Please refer to Parental leave for more information including details on how to apply.
A primary adopter may apply for paid time off to attend up to 5 pre-adoption appointments. A secondary adopter may apply for paid time off for up to 2 adoption appointments.
Please refer to Time off for adoption and antenatal appointments for further information including how to apply.
Following notification of pregnancy and the production of a doctor’s certificate, a female service person is entitled to reasonable time off, with pay, to keep appointments for antenatal care made on the advice of a registered medical practitioner.
Please refer to Time off for adoption and antenatal appointments for further information including how to apply.
