Summer holiday payment

r32 · Post by **r32** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:05 am

Hello everybody

Is the summer holiday money for 1 day the same as a a normal working day? So if somebody is getting 9 euros/hour with 8hours of work in a day, that means 72 euros/day. Is the holiday paid the same, with 72 euros/day?

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richard berman · Post by **richard berman** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:20 am

It has always worked for me like this,

Get my full wage for my 5 weeks summer holiday + 50% extra (holiday money) and then tax taken off.

r32 · Post by **r32** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:24 am

richard berman wrote:It has always worked for me like this,

Get my full wage for my 5 weeks summer holiday + 50% extra (holiday money) and then tax taken off.

Yes, should be normal like this but I took a look on my pay check for last year, I had 4 paid days and right near the days I had the salary but it was lower the a normal day of work. Any idea why?
I will attach a copy of my pay check so you can take a look!

r32 · Post by **r32** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:37 am

My payment for 1 hour of work in that time was 9,7 and I have to work 7,5h/day, so that would make 72,75/day
You will see that where I have my 4 days holiday I have only 61,32/day....so it's more then 10 euro missing...

Does anybody have any idea what's wrong here?

Flossy1978 · Post by **Flossy1978** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:14 pm

Usually you get less pay for the 'extra' summer pay that comes in July (I get mine in july).

For me, I get 5 weeks paid holidays and then that extra summer pay I get 70% of whatever holiday days I have accumulated in wages.

For instance, last year I had five months off work with long term sickleave. I got the first three months paid by my employer, so I still collected my holiday days. The last two months were paid by KELA. I didn't collect summer holidays for those two months as I was on 'unpaid sickleave' leave from work.

So this year I won't get my fully holiday amount, therefor I won't get the full 70% of my summer pay.

I don't think that you get a full wage for the summer holidays. I don't know anyone that gets 100% full wage for that summer pay.

r32 · Post by **r32** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:59 pm

Flossy1978 wrote:Usually you get less pay for the 'extra' summer pay that comes in July (I get mine in july).

For me, I get 5 weeks paid holidays and then that extra summer pay I get 70% of whatever holiday days I have accumulated in wages.

For instance, last year I had five months off work with long term sickleave. I got the first three months paid by my employer, so I still collected my holiday days. The last two months were paid by KELA. I didn't collect summer holidays for those two months as I was on 'unpaid sickleave' leave from work.

So this year I won't get my fully holiday amount, therefor I won't get the full 70% of my summer pay.

I don't think that you get a full wage for the summer holidays. I don't know anyone that gets 100% full wage for that summer pay.

I am not talking about the "extra" summer pay, I mean the normal summer pay...

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:20 pm

Did you get a pay rise recently?
Your holiday pay might be calculated on your previous pay.

Ask your payroll clerk (personnel manager... whatever) to explain the difference. They should be able to tell you.

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