Christmas Eve calculated as a full working day
If Christmas Eve is counted as a full working day on vacation, you can negotiate with your employer that it only counts as half a day. These arguments can be useful.
December 24th is usually a whole working day
Keep in mind that you probably don't have the right to have Christmas Eve treated differently than any other working day. So you are supplicants and should ask accordingly politely and friendly.
- It is often the case that it does not make any operational sense if Christmas Eve is a whole working day. If this is the case in your company according to objective criteria, you should speak to your boss about it. In all other cases, it's better to just accept that Christmas Eve is a full working day.
- Show a win-win situation if you are on December 31. and 24.12. do not work and in return you only have one day at the vacation is taken into account. Show that you cannot do any meaningful work for the company on the two days, e.g. B. because important contacts in other companies are not present.
- If you work all day on the two days, you can take two working days off when you could do more valuable work for the company. But if you get the two days off and only have to sacrifice one day of vacation, the company will get a valuable working day from you in return. So you work on a day that is important for the company, instead of two days that are of no use.
Exceptions for Christmas Eve
As mentioned, the 24.12. and the 31.12. are normal working days, it follows that if you want to have time off, it will cost you a whole day of vacation. There are exceptions to this, however, which give you additional arguments.
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- There are branches, for example at banks, with different regulations. The best way to find out whether this applies to you is the trade union responsible for your company. Such agreements are usually respected by employers, in which case you will hardly have to fight for half a day of vacation.
- There can also be something like customary law (company practice), if in the past Christmas Eve was not a full working day, you can derive a legal claim from it. If your employer wants to change this regulation, appeal to him to be fair. Point out that there are common rights as well.
- Should it be customary in the company that employees only have to work half a day on Christmas Eve without having to do so is offset against the vacation, then only half a vacation day can be credited if you do not work on that day. In this case, too, appeal to fairness and remind them of the principle of equal treatment.
Even if winning half a day's vacation is nice, don't overdo the fight because you are should think twice about whether half a day may make your boss uncomfortable stand out.
