Part-time work: catch up on hours because of a public holiday?

Part-time work - continued payment of wages in accordance with public holiday regulations

• If you work part-time as an employee and you interrupt your work due to a public holiday, your employer must pay you wages as if the public holiday had not existed. You don't have to make up for these lessons afterwards.
• The so-called Continued Remuneration Act applies to all employees, trainees, home workers and workers - regardless of whether they work part-time or full-time.
• In your employment contract Of course, other regulations than those prescribed by law can be agreed. However, these must not be to your disadvantage.
• You can of course make up for the hours that you were unable to work due to the public holiday, but your employer must of course pay you for this. This is because these times are considered to be overtime.
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You don't have to catch up on the lessons on a public holiday

• It is a legal requirement that your employer must also pay you for public holidays. It does not matter whether you only work part-time on certain days of the week.


Holiday regulation for part-time employees - you should pay attention to this

Employees are entitled to continued payment of wages by their employer on public holidays. …

• For example, if you always work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and the public holiday falls on a Thursday, you will receive money for this too and you do not have to catch up on the hours.
• If you do, this time will be regarded as overtime and your boss will have to pay you extra.
• Please note that the Remuneration Act only applies if the public holiday is the only reason for the loss of your work. If you are a shift worker and have free shift on this public holiday, you are not entitled to wages for the public holiday.
• You must also show up for work if you have been assigned an extra shift on a public holiday. For example, if you always work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and the public holiday falls on a Thursday, you will receive money for this too and you do not have to catch up on the hours. If you do not work on the special shift on a public holiday without a certificate of incapacity for work, you face consequences under labor law.