Leaves and interruptions

Lexpoint has no leave record. There is no vacation, parental-leave, or unpaid-leave field on an employment record, and nothing in your account lets you add one.

This page exists so you do not go looking for a feature that is not there, and so you know how a break in employment is actually represented today.

How a break is represented today

Through the employment periods on your record, and only through them.

An employment period has a start date and, once it is closed, an end date. If your employer wants a break to be visible, they close the period before it and open a new one after it. The gap between the two dates is the break. That is the whole mechanism.

If your employer does not close and reopen a period, the break is not recorded anywhere — your record shows one continuous period across it. Neither outcome is a judgment by Lexpoint about your employment; it reflects only what your employer entered.

What this means for a letter

An employment letter is drafted from the periods your employer has confirmed. So:

• A break your employer represented as two periods can appear, because the letter is drawn from the dates on those periods.
• A break your employer did not represent that way will not appear.

If the dates on your record do not match what actually happened, the correction is on the record — tell your employer, and they record it as a new period. See Your employment record.

Lexpoint does not say what leave you are owed

Vacation, parental leave, sick leave, and unpaid time off are matters between you, your employer, and the employment law that applies where you work. Lexpoint records employment periods; it does not interpret entitlements. For immigration questions about gaps in employment, see immigratic.com or speak to a representative.

Related

• Your employment record — how periods work and who can change them
• Requesting an employment letter — what a letter is drafted from
• What your employer can see — the full visibility picture