Every employee is entitled to annual leave. But how many days do you actually have per year?
Statutory and additional leave days
For annual leave, the distinction between types of leave days is important. You have statutory and additional leave days. The statutory leave days are the days every employee is entitled to by law. The number of holiday hours amounts to four times the agreed working hours per week. In a full-time employment (of five working days per week), you are entitled to four weeks of holiday: 4 x 5 days = 20 days. Additional leave days are the days you are entitled to based on an applicable CLA. In the hospitality, catering, (day) recreation and swimming pools CLA, this involves an extra week for a full-time employment.
Hours
The number of leave days you accrue depends on the number of hours/days you work.
Example
You work 24 hours per week. You work these hours over three working days of 8 hours. The number of statutory leave days you accrue is then 4 x 3 = 12 days. You can then take four weeks of holiday. Converted into hours, this is 96 hours of holiday. A leave day is worth the number of hours you normally work on a working day. In this case, 8 hours.
On-call worker
Do you have a zero-hours contract? Then it is possible that your holiday hours are paid out monthly with your wages. This is called a salary including holiday rights (leave days and holiday pay). You can still take holiday, but you have already been paid for it. This salary including holiday rights is only possible when you are called upon very irregularly and infrequently.
Do you not receive the hours immediately paid out? Then, like everyone else, you accrue paid holiday hours. The calculation for this is as follows:
You accrue 0.096 hours of holiday per hour (for which you are entitled to wages). This accrual consists of:
- Statutory holiday (per worked hour 0.0768 hours)
- Additional holiday (per worked hour 0.0192 hours)
So, per worked hour, you accrue 0.096 hours of holiday. You can multiply your worked hours by that number.
Note:
Only if one of the previously mentioned CLAs applies to your contract are you entitled to additional leave days. Are you not covered by one of these CLAs? Then use the 0.0768 hours accrual per hour for the calculation.