Annual holiday

The provisions concerning annual leave of the central government civil servants and employees are in the Collective Agreement on the Annual Holidays for Government. The agreement covers permanent and fixed-term as well as full- and part-time employment relationships.

The provisions concerning the annual leave are mainly structured around the principle of holiday entitlement: holiday entitlement accrues by working a holiday credit year, that is, a period of time which starts on April 1 and ends on March 31. In principle, the civil servants and employees who according to their appointments or contracts work more than 35 hours every month are entitled to holidays. The length of the annual leave is determined on the basis of the number of full holiday credit months accumulated in the holiday credit year as well as the length of the employment relationship in question.

In general the annual holiday may be given during the period that starts January 1st of the calendar year when the holiday credit year ends and ends on the 30th of April the following year. Within certain limits it is in the authorities of the employer to define the time of the holiday, but it may also be agreed on.

The civil servants and employees are entitled to their normal pay during the holidays. An additional holiday bonus is also paid, the amount of which depends on the holidays earned.

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