Holidays and Leave - general

How is your leave calculated?

The number of leave hours you are entitled to depends on your employment contract, the agreed number of working hours, and your age.

Holidays

All employees whose employment is based on a 38 hour working week are entitled to 232 leave hours per calendar year. If you have a flexible work arrangement and you have arranged to work 40 hours per week, you will be entitled to an additional 96 hours per calendar year. If you arranged to work 36 hours per week, your leave will be reduced by 96 hours per calendar year.

The working week of part-time employees will be rounded off to full hours; if necessary, leave hours may have to be given-up.

Employees who were born before 1 January 1950 and who have been employed with employers participating in ABP, without interruption from 1 April 1997, receive 16 leave hours less, in order to retain their right to early retirement.

The number of leave hours you are entitled to increases with your age:

30 to 39 years inclusive	8 additional hours
40 to 44 years inclusive	16 additional hours
45 to 49 years inclusive	24 additional hours
50 to 54 years inclusive	32 additional hours
55 to 59 years inclusive	40 additional hours
60 years and older	48 additional hours

If either the number of hours you work or your salary alter during the current calendar year, your leave balance will be recalculated.

Each year you have to take up a minimum of three weeks holiday; at least twee weeks have to be taken up during an uninterrupted period.
You are entitled to carry forward a maximum of 192 (after the rate of shiftleave) hours from one calendar year to the next.

If your faculty or service department requires you to come to work as a matter of emergency, then permission to take up leave may be withdrawn before or during the actual period of leave. Any resulting material damage will be compensated.

Prior to the termination of employment (voluntarily or otherwise) it is necessary for you and your superior to discuss the issue of remaining leave hours. In principle these will have to be taken up before the end of your employment. If this is not possible, the remaining leave hours may be paid out.

Illness during holidays

If you fall ill during your leave period you will have to report this to your superior. These leave hours will not be deducted from your holiday entitlement. You will, however, have to be able to provide a medical certificate from your doctor.

In addition to leave hours you are also entitled to a holiday benefit (holiday pay).

Registration of leave hours

The registration of leave hours is taken care of by a person within your faculty or service department upon the instruction of your superior. Proper and complete registration is in your own interest. Without such registration it is not possible to exchange leave hours within the Terms of Employment Multiple Choice Model / Individual Choices Model or to participate in the long-term saving model referred to in Article 5.5 (pdf) of the CAO-NU.
Without a reliable registration it will be assumed you have taken up all your leave hours.

Exchange of leave hours within the Terms of Employment Multiple Choice Model / Individual Choices Model

Within the Terms of Employment Multiple Choice Model / Individual Choices Model, you are entitled to exchange a maximum of 76 leave hours per calendar year for all ‘targets’ including a maximum of 38 hours for additional salary.

Leave related to religious conviction

If, for religious or ideological reasons, you consider the weekly day of rest not to fall on a Sunday, you will have to take up leave hours for this specific reason. Please submit a written request thereto to your superior.