Yeah pretty much just paying for extra time off... They only recently started offering it, so I did it.. My gf couldn't get time off over Christmas which is when we're on a forced 3 week break, which only leaves us with the 8 days leave after christmas/easter industry shut downs.. So the idea was to have that extra leave so I could take time off when she can get it so we can actually go somewhere.
But now it's looking like her boss will give her time off in Jan, so it should work out sweet now...Hopefully take a trip to Thailand...
Once I go second year I might stop doing the salary sacrifice...It gets paid at the rate you earned it at, so if I was to take salary sacrifice annual leave after November when I'm a second year, I'd still get paid at the first year rate...
So my plan is to do what Birds mentioned, take some Fridays and Mondays off to use the salary sacrifice leave...get some 3/4/5 day weekends happening