On dismissal, including expiry of fixed-term employment, leading to unemployment, the university must pay unemployment benefits for the first and second day of unemployment to employees who are members of an unemployment fund at the time when the employment ends.

The university’s obligation to pay unemployment benefits for the first and second day of unemployment (G days) applies if a member of an unemployment fund has been employed by the university on the equivalent of full-time terms under the collective agreement for a total of two weeks (i.e. 74 hours) within the past four weeks. If this period includes days of absence, e.g. absence due to illness, holiday, public holidays that fall on a working day etc, the period will be extended and start earlier corresponding to the number of days of absence.

If the member was employed full-time on the last day of employment, the member’s G days are the first two ordinary days of unemployment after the last day of employment. If the member was employed part-time, the last day of employment is the first day of unemployment.

If the member is unemployed for four hours or less per day on the first and second day of unemployment, the unemployment benefit will be half of the amount per day. 

The employer is not liable to pay unemployment benefits for the first and second day of unemployment (G days) if, for example:

• the employee starts new employment on the following working day;
• the employee takes holiday immediately after the employment ends;
• the employee resigns on his or her own initiative,
• the dismissal is primarily attributable to the dismissed;
• the employee receives sickness benefits;
• the employee rejects a written offer of continued employment on pay and employment terms according to the collective agreement with the same employer before the end of the employment.