Service officers, service attendants and cleaners are among the civil service staff who’ll benefit from increased annual leave if the recently-negotiated Public Services Stability Agreement is ratified in union ballots. Head service officers are also covered by the proposed improvements, which will go to all IMPACT grades equivalent to civil service executive officers, staff officers or clerical officers.

The amount of leave applicable to each grade will increase by one day after 12 years’ service, and a further one day after 14 years’ service. This is a total increase of two days leave, which would be applicable from January 2018.

A ballot of IMPACT members in public service and non-commercial semi-state organisations is now underway after the union’s elected Central Executive Committee (CEC) has unanimously recommended that members vote in favour of the deal.

The proposals would also deliver pay increases of up to 7.4% – skewed towards the lower paid – over the course of the three-year agreement. And it contains a commitment to retain existing strong protections against the outsourcing of public services. You can get full details of the proposals here.

You can see a list grades covered by the civil service leave proposal here.