Holiday pay (also: "“additional holiday pay"” or "“vacation bonus"”) is an additional payment of the employer to his employee and/or the service gentleman at its officials, which is usually expenditure-paid with the June content and a contribution to the additional expenditures due to vacation of the concerning resulting usually in the summer to represent. To differentiate it is in particular of the vacation payment after "§ 11 BUrlG, which designates the far payment of the usual wages for the time of the vacation, and/or which appropriate payment continued payment for officials.

Requirement

A requirement of the employee on the payment of holiday pay can itself in particular devoted out

• Collective agreement
• Employment agreement
• Work contract.

If the holiday pay is repeated voluntarily paid by the employer, without it reserved itself a revocation, can besides a requirement due to operational exercise develop.

In the work contract an agreement can have been made, according to which the employee is obligated to the repayment of the holiday pay, if it separates within a certain period after the payment of the holiday pay from the enterprise.

The requirement for holiday pay of the officials results in and/or resulted from law, for instance the holiday pay law of the federation.

Height

The height of the payment can be dependent on industry, company and duration of seniority.

Practice

Holiday pay became increasingly in the 70's and 80's yearly 20. Century in collective agreements fixed. Meanwhile a trend moving in opposite directions is recognizable. The holiday pay is shortened in many industries and enterprises or painted - as large in the public service -.

See also

Christmas benefit

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