Holiday pay
In some jurisdictions, the percentage of salary earned the foregoing year, and is paid during holiday the following year.
In some jurisdictions, holiday pay is an allowance which an employee earns through work in the calendar year prior to the year of the holiday. It is usually a percentage supplement to the salary that has been paid the year before the holiday pay is to be paid.
Holiday pay is a legal term in Norway (feriepenger), Sweden (semesterlön), Denmark (feriepenge), Belgium and the Netherlands (vakantiegeld, vakantieuitkering, or pécule de vacances), Germany and Austria (Urlaubsgeld).
Norwegian law
In Norway, the right to holiday pay is established in the Holiday Act of 1988 (ferieloven).
An employee who has not been working the previous year has the right of vacation, but does not have the right of holiday pay. The holiday year (ferieåret) is defined as the year when the employee leaves for holiday. The holiday pay earned in the previous year is paid in connection with the holiday leave the following year, no later than one week before the holiday starts.
The right of holiday pay is linked to the concept of an employee, which means that one performs work in the service of another. Freelancers and self-employed persons are therefore not entitled to holiday pay under the Norwegian Holiday Act.
The holiday pay amounts to 10.2% of the holiday pay basis.
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