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The holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December.
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Your holiday entitlement depends on your role level, Day Before or After Independence Day
and your years of service, from 12 to a maximum of 20 Holidays Day Before or After Thanksgiving
days.

Your holiday entitlement is pro-rated on your first year
of employment, based on your start date.
from one holiday year to another, subject to CARRY
You may be allowed to carry up to 5 days over

your line manager’s approval.
Any days carried over will need to be taken by OVER
March 31 - any unused days will expire 1 April. SABBATICAL
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LEAVE
Summer Hours
In order to reward our employees’
During Summer Hours (between
Memorial Day and Labor Day), continued service, MMR offers eligible
employees can leave at 1 pm on long-term employees the ability to
Fridays. The expectation is take a 2-month sabbatical which
employees need to get their work allows time to focus on things outside
done throughout the week. There of work for example the opportunity
may be times when it may not be to travel, spend time with family, or
possible for employees to leave to be involved in voluntary work. Full
early on Fridays due to a client details are outlined in the Sabbatical
commitment, a deadline to be Leave policy on Octopus.
VOLUNTEERING
met or a particularly busy period

REST SCHEME Many of our employees help their community by

In order to encourage work-life balance, volunteering their time to local or national
community events or charity organisations.
we implemented a Rest Scheme.
Subject to your line manager’s approval, We enhance this support by offering a
you are able to come in late or leave Volunteering Day (in the form of an extra day of
early when appropriate to compensate a paid leave) that enables our employees to give
period of ‘excessive’ hours worked. their time during a working day.

SUNSHINE FRIDAY

As recognition for hitting monthly regional
target, employees are rewarded an extra
half day off (subject to resource levels).
This should be taken within two weeks of
the business announcement which is
communicated on
a monthly basis.
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