Vacation calculation in Vertec

Vertec calculates the holiday credit in hours, not days.

If the employment level changes during the year, Vertec also changes the calculation basis for the holiday credit. Until the changeover, the credit is calculated on the basis of the old standard hours, after that on the basis of the new standard hours. The two balances are added together. An example explains how Vertec calculates exactly.

The example assumes that the employee works 100% from the beginning of the year until the end of July, and then reduces to 90% for the rest of the year. Basically, Vertec calculates a holiday credit for each day (including those not working). If an employee has a different standard hour during the analysis period than a 100% employee, the holiday credit is multiplied by the corresponding factor.

With Vertec, both full-time and part-time salaries can be mapped. The holiday/holiday entitlement also exists in the case of part-time work, and the time off from work must be 4 and 5 weeks respectively. If part-time workers work all days, there are no differences. If, on the other hand, they only work some days of the week, the holiday days must be reduced accordingly.

If an employee reduces or extends the workload, the entitlement remains unchanged. Therefore, if someone has a holiday credit of 3 days of 8 hours, i.e. 24 hours, from his time of 100% employment, the credit may not be reduced if the workload is changed to 90%, according to common court practice. He therefore benefits the 24 hours, not suddenly just 21.6.

This means that in the case of a “calculation in days,” it is still necessary to define what a day means. This would have to be recorded in historical form per employee with the respective workload. This de facto corresponds to a figure in hours.

The question arises as to how lawyers interpret the calculation via hours, since labour laws always refer to vacation days. Vertec has commissioned labour law lawyers in Switzerland and Germany (representing the EU) to assess whether the calculation, as Vertec does, is consistent with legal practice. The two lawyers explicitly affirm this, and the corresponding memo can be found here: File note calculation of holiday credit in the event of a change in workload .