Annual holiday or bank holidays during a temporary layoff

Annual holiday during a layoff

During your layoff, you can take annual holiday, for which your employer pays your holiday pay. If you receive a holiday pay based on the salary of a full-time work, you are not entitled to the earnings-related allowance for those days.

In case your holiday pay is based on the salary of a part-time work, the allowance is paid as adjusted allowance. The salary is taken into account in a different manner depending on the type of layoff.

If you work on shortened daily working hours during your layoff and you receive adjusted allowance, the adjusted allowance is also paid for the holiday, in case the holiday pay is based on the salary of part-time work. The income taken into account includes, among other things, the holiday pay and also holiday bonus, because the holiday bonus is based on working part-time.

Bank holiday during a layoff

With bank holidays, consideration is given to the way in which your employer has taken bank holidays into account in the payroll with regard to your pay for your layoff period.

If you are fully laid off

If you are fully laid off and do not receive any bank holiday compensation or pay for the bank holiday month from your employer, the bank holiday is treated in the same way as other layoff days. Mark the bank holiday as a layoff day on your daily allowance application.

If you are partially laid off

If you are partially laid off, your entitlement to earnings-related unemployment allowance for a bank holiday depends on whether, regardless of the layoff, that day would have been a workday, a paid day off, or an unpaid day off. See below for more details on different situations and on how to record the days on your daily allowance application.

Bank holidays are paid as a separate allowance:

If your employer pays you a bank holiday compensation equal to a full day’s pay, you are not entitled to daily allowance for that bank holiday. Record the day as a paid bank holiday.

If, on the other hand, you receive bank holiday compensation based on part-time work, the bank holiday compensation does not prevent you from receiving earnings-related unemployment allowance for the bank holiday. Compensation for a bank holiday is then included in your adjusted earnings in accordance with the standard adjustment rules. Mark the day as a paid bank holiday and record the number of paid hours.

Pay is not reduced for a bank holiday, because such a holiday is not counted as a workday:

If your employer does not consider a bank holiday as a working day at all, you are not entitled to a daily allowance for the bank holiday. In this case, no pay deduction is made, because no pay is normally paid for a bank holiday that could be deducted. Select “other reason” for the day and enter “bank holiday” in the additional text field.

Pay is deducted for a bank holiday:

If a deduction is made from pay for a bank holiday, the bank holiday is treated in the same way as other layoff days. Mark the day as a layoff day.

See below for a more detailed example of entitlement to daily allowances for bank holidays and how bank holidays can affect the calculation of the layoff deduction:

Policies regarding bank holidays vary by industry and are based on collective agreements. If necessary, we recommend that you check with your employer to find out how they take bank holidays into account in the payroll.