On this page you can read about your rigths concerning managers and other employees possibilities to make special agreements for senioremployees. The agreements have the purpose to secure a steady and secure a flexibel resignment for the labour market etc.
The legal basis for senior initiatives are:
State Employer’s Authority-s Circular of 16 December 2024 regarding senior schemes
State Employer’s Authority’s Circular of 21 December 2021 regarding severance schemes
Aarhus University endeavours to ensure the optimum connection between personal resources and tasks. Age is not crucial, but rather competencies, conduct, motivation, willingness to develop and capacity for work. All employees – including senior employees – have an obligation to maintain their academic and personal competencies on an ongoing basis.
Senior bonus and senior days
NB: Working hours and seniority are not accrued when taking senior days with a salary deduction. Please note that this may affect the accrual of entitlement to the tax-free premium for employees on early retirement pension schemes and other similar schemes.
As of January 2024, a new circular on senior bonus will come into force. The circular applies to employees covered by collective agreements and civil servants, but not to employees on hourly pay.
From January 2024 salaried employees who turnes 62 in the calendar year will automatically receive a special senior bonus equivalent to 0.8% of their annual salary.
In addition it will be possible to take two senior days off every year, which will be with payroll deduction. f you turn 62 in the period 1 January July - 31. December, however, you will only be able to hold 1 senior day with payroll deduction in the first year. The senior days must be taken as full days off.
Agreements on the two senior days with payroll deductions are made with your immediate supervisor and must be registered in MitHR as "senior day with payroll deduction". Senior days not taken with a pay deduction can be agreed to be transferred to subsequent calendar years. This must be done before the end of the calendar year. Days not taken or not agreed to be transferred will cease at the end of the calendar year.
You find the new circular here (in danish only)
Employees (both academic and administrative) who have turned 62 may be granted up to one senior day (paid time off) a month.
The senior days scheme is voluntary for both parties. The granting of senior days must therefore be agreed between the employer and the employee. An agreement is concluded between a senior employee and his/her manager in specific situations where the manager finds that this is expedient in view of the university’s activities. When this is the case, the employer and employee can enter into an individual agreement on the granting of senior days.
Trade union representative/the professional organization must formalize the agreement, cf. the circular. The formalization can be done by the union representative's signature or approval of the agreement.
Common principles
There should be a correlation between the age of the employee in question and his/her work, wishes and competencies on the one hand and the employer’s need to retain the employee and his/her knowledge and competencies on the other.
Basic criteria for assessing whether to grant an agreement on senior days are listed below. The list of criteria is not exhaustive:
If one or more of the above criteria are met, the immediate superior can recommend that the employee should be granted senior days.
At Health, the dean makes the final decision to grant senior days on the basis of a recommendation via HR. Individual senior agreements are reviewed every 3 years.