Annual holiday

When you work, you accumulate paid holidays. You accumulate holidays if you work for at least 35 hours a month or 14 days a month. If your employment has lasted less than one year, you will receive 2 days of holiday a month. If your employment has lasted more than a year, you will receive 2.5 days of holiday a month. In total, you will receive 24 days of summer holiday and 6 days of winter holiday.

Example: your employment has lasted 6 months and you work for 40–80 hours every month -> You accumulate 12 days of holiday.

You will be paid during your annual holiday even though you are not at work. This is called holiday pay. In many workplaces, employees are also paid a holiday bonus, which is around half of the total amount of the holiday pay paid.

If you are a part-time employee with less than 14 days or less than 35 hours per calendar month, you will not accumulate holidays. However, in such a case, you are still entitled to take time off and to the holiday compensation.

If you fall ill before or during the agreed holiday, notify your employer without delay, as you can ask the employer to transfer your holiday to a later date.

If you do not have time to keep all your holiday days during your employment relationship, you will be monetarily compensated for the accumulated days.