Vacation Hours and Employment Contract: Your Rights

Questioner

At the moment I am working at a bso for 86.67 hours per month. However, I am not scheduled for that many hours and my employer deducts the missed hours from my vacation hours. This does not seem right to me. They indicate that they have been doing this for years and that this is allowed. How exactly does this work and what can I do to keep my vacation hours in the future?

Lawyer

That is not correct in my opinion. I do not know the exact content of your employment contract, but in principle you are entitled to the agreed number of hours per month of work (and the corresponding salary). Have you made a claim for this? The number of vacation hours to which you are entitled is, in short, based on the number of agreed hours. If you want to discuss this, please feel free to contact me.

Lawyer

the employer must pay the agreed number of hours. Too little work is his (entrepreneur's) risk. Some collective labor agreements have a settlement system of 4 weeks (or per year). One week you work more and the other less. That is allowed. Structurally planning fewer hours and then settling them with the vacation days is never allowed.