Taking vacation part-time
Even if you work part-time, you are of course entitled to vacation leave. This not only applies to part-time workers, but also to mini or midi jobbers. How you calculate your vacation entitlement depends on whether you work for a few hours each day or just a few days a week.
According to Section 5 of the Part-Time and Fixed-Term Employment Act, a general prohibition of discrimination applies. Accordingly, your employer must not discriminate against you just because you work part-time, for example. You see employment contract or a collective agreement does not provide any deviating and more favorable rules for you, your vacation entitlement is based on the Federal Vacation Act (BUrlG).
Calculate part-time vacation
- If you only work for a few hours as a part-time employee on all planned working days, then your vacation entitlement is calculated in the same way as that of the full-time employee. Because the vacation granted by days, it doesn't matter how many hours you work in a day.
- Does your employment contract, like the Federal Vacation Act, assume a six-day week and grant you, for example If you are entitled to a vacation of 30 days, you can, like the rest of the employees, vacation for 30 working days per year to take.
- On the other hand, if you only work part-time, for example three days a week, your entitlement to recovery time will be proportionate.
- It is then 3/6 - since you work three out of six days - and therefore 15 days a year. If you spread these 15 days over the weeks in which you work, you get five weeks of free time per year, just like a full-time employee with 30 days of vacation.
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Calculation for the five-day week
- In contrast to the Federal Vacation Act, most employment contracts are based on a five-day week.
- A vacation entitlement of, for example, 25 working days then means five weeks vacation.
- As a part-time worker who only works on certain days, you can then calculate your entitlement to free time based on the five-day week.
- For example, if you work two days a week - whether half-day or full-time - your amount is Vacation entitlement 2/5 and thus 10 days if full-time employees who work every day for a total of 25 days Have holidays.
The vacation entitlement of part-time employees is usually calculated on a pro-rata basis. It should be noted that the entitlement always relates to full days.
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