How to make your leave go further
Public-holiday planning
- Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday and Corpus Christi make spring especially promising.
- National Day and All Saints’ Day can create bridges when they fall next to weekends.
- The statutory five-week baseline is generous enough that optimizing around public holidays can produce several long breaks.
Legal basis and comparison method
Employees generally have 25 working days of paid annual leave on a five-day week (30 days on a six-day week). Entitlement rises after more than 25 years with the same employer.
Regional and calendar caveats
The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.
Planner
The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
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