Clergy Holiday & Time Off guidelines
The Administration Board recommends that stipendiary clergy and vestries observe the following as a minimum provision for clergy holidays and other “time-off”:-
Holidays
1 Five weeks basic holiday per annum (25 days), plus an additional ten days being equivalent to annual public holidays.
2 The congregation should be responsible for funding the costs of a “locum tenens” for up to five Sundays per annum to enable the clergy to take a holiday.
3 On the basis of a five day “working week” for clergy, the intention of the above provision is therefore that clergy should have annual leave of 35 days of which no more than 5 should be Sundays. (As mentioned above, bank/public) holidays are to be regarded as included within this provision rather than in addition to it.
Time Off
4 At least two days off in every seven.
General
5 Vestries should have power to augment the minimum standard set out above where exceptional circumstances pertain.
6 Vestries should ensure that they, and their congregations, are aware of and abide by the arrangements made with their clergy in relation to holidays and time-off and should encourage clergy to take holiday and time-off in accordance with such arrangements.
7 The above principles should apply to part-time appointments on a pro-rata basis.
Approved and adopted by General Synod, June 2021
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