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In hospitality, it is common for employees to work on public holidays. These are often the busiest days of the year. The CLA hospitality includes a provision for working on public holidays.
If the CLA hospitality still applies to your employment contract and you work on a public holiday, you are eligible for compensation. If the CLA does not apply, check if there is a company regulation that includes such a provision.
The compensation scheme from the CLA applies to working on recognised public holidays. The recognised public holidays are: New Year's Day, Easter Sunday and Monday, King's Day, Liberation Day in lustrum years, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday and Monday, and Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
The compensation according to the CLA hospitality
For working on a public holiday between 02:00 and 02:00 the next day, you receive compensation. Initially, you receive one hour of compensatory time off for each hour worked. For example, if you worked 8 hours on Christmas Day, you get 8 extra hours off. You can then try to take this time off within 26 weeks after the public holiday.
If taking time off is not possible, you receive a bonus on your salary. The bonus amounts to 50% of the hourly salary for those worked hours. For working on the public holiday, you would then be paid a total of 150%.
The company is closed during the public holidays
A public holiday is not automatically a paid extra day off. If the employer closes the company during the public holidays and you do not meet your contractual hours that week, you must make up the day. You are paid for those hours (your usual monthly salary). The employer may then ask you to make up the missed hours at another time. Of course, you could choose to use a holiday day so you do not have to make up those hours.
Employment conditions regulation of Koninklijke hospitality Nederland
Is the employment conditions regulation (the AVR) of KHN declared applicable to your employment contract? The regulation also has a compensation scheme. The AVR includes the same recognised public holidays, with the exception of Liberation Day. For working on the other recognised public holidays, the same scheme as shown above applies. The compensation does not apply to employees who are temporary or non-skilled workers.