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Post by the_only_way_is_up on Mar 11, 2012 21:41:07 GMT
Can someone please clarify for me...
I have an annual holiday enlement of 30 days with 2 travel days. Is this 30 days including 2 travel days, or 30 days plus 2 travel days. I was under the impression that it was 30 leave days plus 2 travel (32 days in total) but at my orientation in london the lady presenting said it was the 30 including T days. But she didn't really seem too sure on a number of points throughout the day.
Also, when i take my annual repat visit (I'm allowed one), i know I have to be away for at least 14 days. Do I have to specifically use 14 leave days or could I be away for 12 and use an earned weekend to make up the other 2? If my "travel days" are included in my 30 day allowance and I have to use them for my repat, do I therefore have to use 16 days for repat, leaving me with just 14 for the rest of the year?
I hope this makes sense to someone...!
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Uman
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Post by Uman on Mar 12, 2012 0:06:10 GMT
and on another note....
What happens in your first year of employment....ie...start in April/May with regard to holidays. I am assuming that most people leave the country during August....Can you get your repat plane ticket(or cash equivilant) after just 3 or 4 months of employment?
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Post by the_only_way_is_up on Mar 12, 2012 1:00:05 GMT
I'm not sure how it works for others but I know for me as a grade 8 single female employee, with one repat allowance, I have to take my first one on or around the anniversary of my start date, so will be taking that in March 2013 and from there on can take it any time during the year. Annual leave is calculated pro rota for the remaining months of your first year and dates I guess authorised by your supervisor. I want to leave in August too but if everyone else has the same idea, my leave may not be approved  |
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Post by teebee on Mar 12, 2012 4:34:50 GMT
Hi all
To answer your questions, your 2 travel days are added to your repat vacation.
A repatriation vacation must include at least 14 vacation days, exclusive of other time off such as travel time, holidays, etc.
In your first year of employment, you need to have completed 12 months service before you can take your repat. You then need to commence your repat before the end of that year. However, you can start your repat before completion of 12 months service, if your anniversary falls within the repat period. Also if your start date anniversary is in the final quarter the year, you can delay your repat to the first quarter of the following year, without affecting
eligibility for another repatriation vacation in that year.
Bit confusing, but if you start in April/May 2012, your repat must begin in 2013 on or during your anniversary date or any date up until the end of the year.
If you start in the final quarter of 2012 (Oct-Dec), again the same rule above applies, but you are allowed to take it in the first quarter of 2014 (Jan-Mar) and you are then allowed to take another repat that year.
Normally, repatriation vacations should be separated by an interval of six months minimum.
The above rules apply only to those on the Sterling payroll.
Hope this helps.
Teebee
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Post by Hadia on Mar 12, 2012 5:00:39 GMT
When are repatriation funds released for the first year of employment, if the dependents will be leaving Kingdom for the summer before the one-year employment anniversary occurs? Does the family have to front the travel funds?
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Post by teebee on Mar 12, 2012 5:45:15 GMT
For those on the Sterling payroll, you can request prepayment when the repat vacation is entered into the system. I've tried to find on the Industrial Relations Manual the policy with regards to prepayment, but either I'm looking in the wrong place, or I just can't find it. My experience was that I received mine approx 2 months in advance of my repat date.
Teebee
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Post by vpainter on Mar 12, 2012 21:40:32 GMT
U.S. Payroll. Repat vacation funds are given after one year of employment, but during that first year you are accruing vacation days and they can be taken with you paying for your trip(s). After the first year, you get one repat vacation of at least 14 days and receive repat vacation funds. All other vacation days that are used to travel are paid for by you.
If you start after Jan 1st of a year you must wait until the next year for repat monies. If you start at the end of the year, you get repat moneys in the new year. ex: start Dec 30, 2011, then you get repat money in 2012. If you start Jan 2, 2012, then you get repat money starting in Jan. 2013.
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Post by David_and_Nita on Mar 13, 2012 13:20:35 GMT
Repat rules summarized:
Minimum vacation days taken: 14
Your first weekend does not count, so add 2
Add travel days
So, from your last day of work your minimum repat is (18) days total. (14) will be paid vacation days and subtracted from your vacation balance. The first weekend is a freebee. The travel days are added to your balance then taken out.
You are given prorated vacation from your start date until the end of your starting year. Usually after about 6 months you can take it as short leave and it is on you to pay for that leave.
We started in Jan, 2009 and were not eligible for paid repat until the following Jan. We took short leave in the fall, then 3 weeks in Dec 2009, all on our dime and carried the remaining balance over to 2010. We did not take paid repat until summer, 2010.
When you enter your vacation request into the system, it will give you choices: Short leave, or repat, etc. If you enter repat it will ask you if you want "prepayment". We THOUGHT the first year that "prepayment" meant repat payment and checked "yes". Instead, we found out that the repat payment is automatically issued about 2 months before your leave date starts and "prepayment" issues you (1) month salary in advance in addition to that. SO: Since we scheduled repat about 4 weeks before we were supposed to leave they dumped the repat money + 1 month salary advanced into our account. Oops.
If you start in the middle of the year, you will get 50% of your annual leave eligibility issued to you from start day, and can use it for short leaves, but you will not be eligible for a formal, paid repat until the middle of next year.
It is worth noting that vacation days INCLUDE weekends while on vacation. So 7 vacation days will cover sat-fri of a vacation week. You are not dinged weekend days if you work at least (1) day of the first week. Example: You work Saay and take the rest of the week off. You are charged (4) days if you come to work the following Saay. If you take Saay-Wed (a full week) off, you are charged (7) vacation days because the following weekend (thu-fri) gets counted against your balance. The weekend before (the previous Thu/Fri) is considered your freebie.
Those are general rules. Hope that helps.
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Post by Hadia on Mar 13, 2012 15:04:33 GMT
What about in instances during first year when the spouse and kids leave for summer repat early in the summer without the employee, then employee joins the family for the last part of summer, with the 1-year anniversary falling during his repat...will the repat funding be dropped into employee's account based on employee's departure date, or the family's? How far out or close to summer travel dates are recommended for getting best airfares and availability from KSA to US?
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Post by the_only_way_is_up on Mar 15, 2012 10:33:04 GMT
I just thought I'd clarify my findings in case any other new starters suffer the same confusion as me. Had I read through my contract etc properly in the first place I wouldn't have needed to ask...
For secs/nurses with a thirty day allowance it is calculated as:
28 days annual leave
2 special vacation days are granted to all employees regardless of their grade code provided that you are on the January payroll for that year. As I am starting in March I am not enled to these.
You also get 2 or 4 travel days which are added on to your annual repatriation vacation. In my case this is 2 days and I will not be enled to repat until March 2012.
Therefore for the rest of this year I am enled to 28 days leave pro rata (21 days). As of jan 2013 I will be enled to the full 30 days plus 2 travel days.
My relocation advisor has repeatedly failed to explain this correctly and confused the special vacation days with travel days. I have found the London office nothing short of useless throughout most of the application process but I don't think this is unusual...
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Post by azraeil on Mar 25, 2012 5:28:59 GMT
It is always based on the employee departure dates. The company does not really care when the dependents depart for vacation actually. I have been doing this (family leaving first in summer) for the last 6 years and the repat money will always be deposited 6 weeks prior to "my" departure date.
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Post by dimk on Nov 12, 2014 9:39:19 GMT
teebee,
What about the rules applied to those on Global Payroll?
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Post by teebee on Nov 12, 2014 12:44:14 GMT
Same for global payroll.
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