Holiday Pay

[Norsk]

For employees in the state sector in Norway, settlement of holiday pay is made in June regardless of when you actually take your holiday.

When you are on holiday, in theory you receive holiday pay not the ordinary salary. So when calculating payments in June, we therefore adjust your normal June salary by paying holiday pay due and deducting salary for 5 weeks (6 weeks for those over 60). As these 5 weeks amount to more than the normal salary for June, the net result is a negative salary for June. The holiday pay however (except in extraordinary circumstances) more than covers the loss of pay. The net result therefore amounts to more than an ordinary monthly salary.

General information
(numbers marked with a star apply to employees over 60 years.)

• Annual holiday 5 (*6) weeks = 25 (*30) holiday days
• Holiday pay is paid as a percentage of income in the base year (previous calendar year)
• Holiday pay percentage: 12 % (*14,3%)
• Holiday pay paid in the base year, is not included in the base for calculating holiday pay the following year
• Deductions for 1 day's salary: annual salary divided by 260
• Deductions for full holiday: 25 days (i.e. 25 x annual salary / 260)
  260 is the number of days per year with a 5 day week (5 x 52)
• If you did not work in Norway for the whole of the previous year and wish to take only as much holiday as you have earned, use this form.

Calculating holiday pay:

• Holiday pay
  Holiday pay is calculated as 12% of the base income from last year. This base is shown  on the annual overview we send out in January. Holiday pay for last year and the present year are shown on the monthly pay slips. 
• Salary
  June's ordinary salary is calculated and then a deduction is made for 5 (*6) weeks' holiday
  A full ordinary holiday is 25 (*30) working days, i.e. more than one month. But to avoid paying holiday pay in two months, the whole calculation is done in June.

An example: NN is under 60 years old and has a monthly salary of 30.000 kr. Holiday pay from last year's income amounts to 38.000 kr.
Deduction for a holiday of 25 working days:

Holiday pay 12 % :		kr 38.000
Monthly salary for June:		30.000
- Deduction for 5 weeks' holiday:   (monthly salary x 12 months x 25 days / 260 days)		- 34.615 *
= Gross amount:		kr 33.385

*Amount which on the pay slip is marked as "OF19 Ferietrekk ordinært ".

Other rules regarding the settlement of holiday pay

• everyone who is registrered with a monthly salary in June, temporary as well as permanent staff, is deducted for a full holiday (25 or 30 days) in June. Adjustments are made for those who give notice that they are not taking the full holiday 
• this also applies to those who begin or end their employment in June
• a person leaving UiO should receive holiday pay due, together with the last salary payment or the followning month
  (unless they leave to take other employment in the state, in which case holiday pay is transferred to the new place of work)

The right to holiday leave

• holiday leave may be taken idependently of how much holiday pay you will receive
• holiday leave is obligatory to the extent you have been employed in Norway in the previous year.
  One can not in a single year recieve both holiday pay and salary for 52 weeks .
• contact your personnel officer if you need help finding out how many days paid holiday you have earned
• employees under 60 years have the right to take 5 weeks holiday per year
• employees over 60, or who reach 60 before 1. September, have the right to take 6 weeks holiday per year
• employees who begin working before 1. September have a right to the full 5 weeks' holiday
• holiday may be transferred to the coming year

• for scientific and teaching staff special regulations apply so that teaching is not disturbed
• employees over 60 can decide themselves when the extra 5 days should be taken
• other employees can demand to have their main holiday (a 3 week period) as one unbroken period within the period 1. June - 30. September.
  (Only applicable if they started in the job before 15. August.)
• employees can claim the remaining 2 weeks holiday as unbroken weeks of absence, but not as 2 consecutive weeks

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Unit: OPA, webmaster@uio.no
Document created: 20.06.2002, certified: 14.06.2007