In June, the social partners agreed on the text of the new labour agreement (click here). One substantial change concerns the way we have to manage leave and vacation. From now on we have a rather elaborate procedure that entails handing in a vacation plan. Scientific staff may opt out of the new system. Support staff will get a separate mail by André Koehorst regarding the procedure for the current year. For a full description click Read more.
Scientific staff may opt out of the new system. If you do opt out, you discuss your vacation with your manager and colleagues as usual, but you are relieved of handing in a vacation plan and registering your vacation. We assume the staff member, in consultation with the department head and colleagues, takes the responsibility for taking all of his/her vacation without compromising his or her other duties. If you want to opt out, please fill in the relief form that is available at your secretariat. If you do not opt out, please register your leave in IMAR and inform your department head about your past and planned leave in 2013 before the end of September.
Rules and regulation for vacation
The basic principles for the regulations governing leave have remained largely unchanged.
UM strongly advises employees to use their holiday leave, given that the holidays are for recuperation, but also to prevent large build-ups of leave entitlements.
In view of this, employees are requested to use as much of their leave entitlement as possible by taking holiday leave, using leave hours as sources in the selection model or making agreements about saving a limited amount of holiday leave for an extended holiday/sabbatical at an agreed-upon time. Line managers are expected to guide this and approach employees if they do not schedule dates for holiday leave or do not register absence as holiday leave.
If necessary, the line manager is instructed to allocate a holiday period in accordance with the CAO (corresponding to no more than four times the employee’s weekly working hours and the leave entitlement of the previous year).
The CAO allows dates for leave to be allocated to an employee if that employee has made no agreements before 1 July about using their leave. We are past that date, and therefore, if you have not done so already, we kindly ask you to inform your line manager as soon as possible about your holiday plans for this calendar year.
