The holiday agreement applies for public servants, staff with public servant status and staff employed under a collective agreement, including trainees with a work placement agreement pursuant to the Danish Act on Vocational Education and Training.
Medical specialists are covered by the provisions of the holiday agreement concerning special holidays, but otherwise they follow the holiday rules in the collective agreement for medical specialists.
Hourly paid employees are governed by the Danish Holiday Act and the provisions of the holiday agreement concerning replacement holiday. Hourly paid employees entitled to full pay during illness are covered by the provisions of the holiday agreement on special holidays.
You earn 2.08 days of holiday per month of employment in the holiday year, which runs from 1 September to 31 August. This corresponds to 25 days of holiday - 5 weeks - per holiday year. You earn holiday regardless of the monthly number of hours you are employed for.
The days of holiday are earned at the end of the month and can be taken from the 1st of the following month.
You also earn holiday while absent from work due to e.g.:
· illness
· maternity/paternity and adoption leave
· taking holiday with pay, including special holidays
· childcare days
· child’s first and second day of illness
· educational leave with full or partial pay
If you have unpaid leave, you will earn holiday and special holidays during the first six months of the leave period, provided:
· you return to work before the end of the holiday period in which the holiday has to be taken, and
· the holiday is taken before the end of the same holiday period – unless the holiday is postponed under other provisions of the holiday agreement.
If you belong to one of the following groups, you will earn paid holiday:
· Monthly paid employees, irrespective of the number of hours
· PhD fellows on part B
· Trainees; see separate section on trainees.
If you are employed under the terms below, you will not earn paid holiday:
· Hourly paid employees (part-time lecturers, teaching assistants, student assistants, etc.)
Hourly paid employees receive a holiday allowance of 12.5 per cent of the pay earned in the year of accrual.
You find your holiday balance by logging in at MitHR.
You earn 0.42 special holidays for each month of employment in the calendar year. This corresponds to five special holidays per year. You earn the special holidays, regardless of the number of hours a month you work.
Special holidays will be earned on an ongoing basis in the calendar year, but unlike the ordinary holiday days, you cannot take the special holidays on an ongoing basis. Special holidays will not be available until 1 May in the year after they are earned.
If you are a permanent employee on a monthly salary, you will be paid a special holiday allowance twice a year. The special holiday allowance is paid together with your monthly salary for May (9 months) and August (3 months).
The special holiday allowance amounts to 2.02 per cent of your salary as of April 1, 2024.
The special holiday allowance paid with the May 2024 salary amounts to 1.5 per cent for the period from September 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024 in accordance with previous rules, and 2.02 per cent for the period from April 1, 2024 to May 31, 2024. The increase in the holiday allowance as of April 1, 2024 replaces the Great Prayer Day allowance, which will cease accordingly.