Premium leave, also known as attendance leave or special leave, as its name implies, is leave granted to public servants on the grounds of their attendance, i.e. on the grounds of their effective exercise without unjustified absences, suspension penalties or leave to attend to private interests.
The right to premium leave will be provided for in the statute or legislation of each entity, where the civil servant is guaranteed the right to use the premium leave, away from the service, only receiving their remuneration or even converting them into length of service.
However, if you, as a civil servant, have retired without using the periods of premium leave to which you were entitled, you can request the conversion of these periods into cash through the courts.
The statute of limitations for claiming unused premium leave is 5 years from the date of retirement.
Therefore, if you are a civil servant and after retirement you have a balance of unused premium leave or leave used for retirement purposes or as a permanent allowance, seek your rights so that you can request the conversion of this unused benefit into cash, as a compensatory indemnity in the amount of the last remuneration received on active duty and in the number of months pending the use of the premium leave.
