Holidays

How many days of holidays am I entitled to?

Following the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) of temporary employees, you are entitled to 20 days of vacation per year (prorata).

  • This amount is included in your hourly gross salary (8.33%).

If you are younger than 20 years or 50 years and older, you are entitled to 25 days of vacation per year (prorata).

  • This amount is included in your hourly gross salary (10.60%).

 

How does the Holiday Reserve work?

The amount paid for your holidays is included in your gross salary; on every pay slip you will notice that the amount is not paid out directly.
Instead it is put aside in your name.

Every month you put aside the equivalent of approximately 1.6 days of vacation.
During your holidays, the equivalent of the hours that you take as vacation are then paid through this fund.

This is a legal guideline which has been put in place, in order to avoid that people paid per hour miss weeks of salary
because the don’t enter their work hours during their holidays.

Please note that the holidays reserve can only be paid when:

  • effective vacations are entered into WebTime™ and validated
  • your assignment ends and reserves are being paid out

 

How can I calculate how many days my holiday reserve supports?

The holidays are paid as follows:

  • Amount in holidays pot / (Base Salary + Bank Holidays part) = Number of holidays hours 
  • Number of holidays hours  / Number of hour per day according to contract = Number of holidays days

These figures appear on your contract of assignment; in order to calculate how many days your reserve can support, you can do the opposite calculation.

 

Example:

Holidays pot: 2074.15 CHF

Base Salary: 31.03 CHF/h

Bank Holidays: 1.35 CHF

 

  • 2074.15 / (31.03 + 1.35) = 64.05
  • 64.05 / 8 (Number of hour per day according to contract)= 8 vacation days supported

 

What happens to my holidays at the end of the year?

The remaining amount in the holiday pot of the current year will be transferred to the next year, i.e. the counter is not reset at the beginning of the year.