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The University provides generous annual leave benefits.

Annual Leave Policy

Staff receive:

  • 25 days/180hours for Professional Services bands A-H 
  • 30 days/216 hours for Professional Services bands I+ and Academic bands A-H
  • 35 days/252 for academics bands I+.

Requesting annual leave

Your employee should request their holiday leave by logging onto their Employee Self Service portal on PeopleNet (St Mary's HR management system), You will need to approve it before they can take these days off work.

Approving annual leave

Once your member of staff has requested annual leave you will receive an email notification from hrsystems@stmarys.ac.uk. The email notification will contain a link so that you can review the absence. Alternatively you can log onto the People Manager portal on PeopleNet and select the task from your to-do list. 

People Manager Guidance

Purchasing annual leave

Staff can also purchase up to five additional days each leave year (pro rated for part time staff) as well. Read our guidance documents on the purchase of additional days.