If you fall ill before or during your holiday, you may come across the concept of “waiting days” - the first 5 days of sick leave if you fall ill while on holiday. There are special rules for sick days during holidays that you should be aware of as an employee and as an employer. Read below to find out what you can expect if you fall ill during your holiday.
Illness before or during holiday
When you fall ill while on holiday, there are different rules depending on whether you fall ill before the planned holiday or once the holiday has begun. If you fall ill before your holiday begins, your employer cannot demand that you take your holiday. However, if you fall ill, for example, the day before the first day of your holiday, you have the right to postpone your holiday to another time during the holiday period, which runs from 1 September to 31 December the following year.
Days off do not count
If you fall ill during your holiday, you can get a replacement holiday at another time during the period. However, this only applies if you have remembered to call in sick or can provide a medical certificate to prove that you have been ill. However, you should be aware that not all holiday days can be replaced. The first five sick days of a holiday are called waiting days, and you cannot be reimbursed if you have been employed for an entire holiday year - i.e. from the beginning of the holiday year at the beginning of September.
Adjustment of waiting days
If you are not sick for more than the 5 qualifying days, you cannot get replacement holiday days. If your employment does not cover the entire holiday year - for example, if you were only hired in January - your employer must adjust the number of qualifying days downwards to match the length of your employment during the period.
This means that if you are employed from the beginning of January, you will be able to earn holiday for 8 months in the current holiday year, which must be multiplied by the number of holiday days: 8 x 2.08 days = 16.64 holiday days.
Qualifying days are regulated according to an entire holiday year, and therefore constitute 5 out of 25 possible holiday days. If 5 days of replacement holiday are to be given, your qualifying days in this case will be 3.33, or 1.67 holiday days.
It's quite a calculation. As it's the employer who has to keep track of the qualifying days in connection with holidays, it's just important that you're aware of when you can apply for a replacement holiday in case you fall ill in the middle of your holiday.
Did you get it all?
Here are the 3 basic rules you need to be aware of when you are sick while on holiday:
Keep track of absence
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