Holiday

Last changed: 04 November 2024

The employer is responsible for planning holiday leave each year and ensuring that the employees take their holiday. If you are employed for the entire calendar year, you have the right to take four consecutive weeks from June to August, unless you and your employer have agreed on something else. You have to take at least 20 days of holiday leave every calendar year.

Number of days

  • 28 days up to and including the year the employee turns 29
  • 31 days from year they turn 30
  • 35 days from the year they turn 40.

Apply for holiday leave on the web (Primula self-service). The head of department (or equivalent) grants the application.

You can only apply for holiday for full days. Only workdays count as holiday leave. A holiday supplement of 0,49 per cent of your monthly salary will be paid för each day of paid annual leave taken out.

Vacation with quota calculation

If your working hours are Monday to Friday, each working day during the vacation period counts as a vacation day. If your working hours are concentrated so that the number of working days in a week or on average per week is normally less than five, the vacation days must be quota calculated when taken.

The number of earned vacation days with vacation pay for those who work concentrated hours is the same as for those who work Monday to Friday. This applies regardless of whether the employee works full-time or part-time. If an employee who has their working hours concentrated to three working days per week only needed to use three vacation days to be off for a week, their annual vacation would last for more weeks than for an employee with evenly distributed working hours.

To ensure that employees with concentrated working hours do not get longer vacation leave than employees who work five days a week, the vacation days must therefore be calculated as if the working hours were distributed over five working days per week.

The vacation quota is calculated by dividing 5 by the number of working days per week:

Number of working days of average per week (a)

Vacation quota (5/a)

4,5

1,11

4

1,25

3,5

1,43

3

1,67

2,5

2,0

2

2,5

1,5

3,33

1

5,0

0,5

10

 

 

Saved days

When you take your holiday, holiday leave for the current year is counted first, followed by the saved days.

You have to take 20 days of holiday leave every calendar year. You may save the extra days but are only permitted to have saved 30 days at the end of the year.

If you have not been able to take your holiday due to e.g. illness and you have more than 30 saved days of holiday leave, you get paid for the extra days in February–March the following year.

If you have remaining holiday leave at SLU when your employment ends, you will be paid for the holiday in cash. The payment is made the month after you leave and consists of 4.6% of your fixed salary plus holiday supplement per leave day.

Holiday leave if you work part of the year

If you are only employed for part of the year, your holiday leave will be calculated as follows:

Number of days you have been employed x annual holiday = number of paid days of holiday leave / 365 (366 during leap year).

The number of holiday leave days is rounded upward, but if you are entitled to less than half a day, no holiday is granted.

Leave of absence – holiday

If you take a leave of absence, it will affect the number of paid days of holiday leave. Long-term illness can also affect holiday leave. This, however, does not apply to parental leave with parental pay, certain types of study leave and 60-day leave for military service.

Unpaid holiday

If you were hired before 1 September but have not worked at SLU for the entire year, you still have the right to take 5 weeks of holiday leave. If you were hired after 1 September you have the right to one week of holiday leave. You accordingly have the right to holiday leave, but are only paid for the leave days according to the above formula. The remaining days are unpaid. You are on holiday leave but will receive no salary. When you take unpaid holiday leave, 4.6% is deducted from your fixed salary for every day of holiday leave.