{"id":3880,"date":"2020-04-23T10:05:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T10:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kopadvocaten.nl\/ongecategoriseerd\/de-waarde-van-vakantiedagen-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:55:42","slug":"the-value-of-vacation-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kopadvocaten.nl\/en\/employee\/the-value-of-vacation-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The value of vacation days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How much is an accrued vacation day worth?<\/strong\nIn an earlier contribution we considered the question of what happens to the vacation days that are left after the year in which they were accrued. This contribution focuses on the question of how much an accrued holiday day is actually worth at the end of the employment contract.\n\nTo answer this question, the legal framework will first be discussed. An overview will then be given of what we can deduct from case law so far. Finally, a striking statement will be highlighted.\n\n\n\n<h2>Legal framework<\/h2>\n<p>Article 7:641 of the Civil Code stipulates, among other things, that an employee retains the right to wages during his vacation.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the employment contract, accrued, unused vacation days must in principle be paid out. This applies to both statutory and non-statutory holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Article 7:641 of the Civil Code further stipulates that an employee is entitled to compensation for unused vacation days \u2018up to an amount of the salary for a period corresponding to the entitlement.\u2019<\/p>\n<h2>The value of vacation days<\/h2>\n<p>The aforementioned legal provision seems quite simple. One day of vacation is worth one day of wages. The question, however, is what falls under \u2018wage\u2019 in this context. That this question is not as easy to answer as it seems is evident from the fact that much has been written about this question.<\/p>\n<p>It is now clear that a broad concept of wages must be used in this context. Case law shows that, depending on the actual situation, the following must be included in the calculation of the compensation for unused vacation days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wage;<\/li>\n<li>Holiday bonus;<\/li>\n<li>Shift allowance;<\/li>\n<li>Irregularity allowance;<\/li>\n<li>13th month;<\/li>\n<li>Bonuses that are (or have been) related to the employee\u2019s efforts and are directly related to the employee\u2019s activities in the company and have been paid out systematically;<\/li>\n<li>The employer\u2019s share of the pension premium (see the statement opposite).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With regard to this last item, the question is how this will work in practice now that the employee\u2019s pension participation stops due to termination of employment.<\/p>\n<h2>Case law<\/h2>\n<p>Ktr. Northern Netherlands February 28th, 2017<br \/>\nIn a judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union considered the following in the context of the concept of \u201choliday pay\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Any burden that is intrinsically linked to the performance of the tasks assigned to the employee in his employment contract and for which he receives financial compensation is included in the employee\u2019s overall remuneration.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether this intrinsic connection exists is left to the national court to assess.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to this consideration, the subdistrict court judge determined that the employer\u2019s premium, although it is not a wage in the literal sense, has a certain value and is therefore part of the broad concept of wage.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, the subdistrict court judge considered it important that if the employee had remained employed and taken his vacation days during the period, a premium would also have been due. According to the subdistrict court judge, the employee may not be put in a more disadvantageous position if the situation is compared between payment of unused vacation days and actually taking them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much is an accrued vacation day worth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employee"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>De waarde van vakantiedagen - Kop Advocaten<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In plaats van de regeling Werktijdverkorting komt een nieuwe tegemoetkomingsregeling, de zogenaamde NOW-regeling.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kopadvocaten.nl\/en\/employee\/the-value-of-vacation-days\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"De waarde van vakantiedagen - 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