Paid leave can be taken as early as the first year of employment. Paid leave must be taken before unpaid leave, but unpaid leave can also be waived. The number of paid vacation days is calculated accordingly:

(number of employment days) / 365 * the annual vacation.


5.1 Length of vacation

The number of vacation days you are entitled to depends on your age.

Number of Vacation Days

Age Up to the age of 29 From the year you reach 30 From the year
you reach 40
Days 28 31 35

 

Saturdays and Sundays as well as public holidays are not counted as vacation days. Midsummer’s Eve, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are regarded as public holidays.

For technical and administrative staff this also applies to Maundy Thursday and bridge days.
 

5.2 Vacation when working fewer than five days per week

For part-time employees with their working hours set so that the number of total working days in a week or on average in a week is normally less than five, the vacation days are calculated by dividing 5 by the number of working days per week.

Number of working days on average:

weekly (a) annual quota (5/a)
4,5 1,11
4 1,25
3,5 1,43
3 1,67

2,5

 2,0
2 2,5
1,5 3,33
1 5,0
0,5 10

 

5.3 Holiday Pay

A supplementary payment of 0,49 % of an employee’s normal salary per month is paid for each vacation day.
 

5.4 Saving vacation

If paid holidays amount to 20 days or more per calendar year, you have the right to save the excess days for a later holiday year. You may save days for an unlimited period, but at any one time you may not have more than 30 days saved.
 

5.5 Vacation planning

Vacation is taken during the current calendar year, except for those days that you are entitled to save (see heading Saving vacation). Apply in good time for vacation. The immediate manager is responsible for ensuring that vacation is taken. Normally employees are entitled to four week’s uninterrupted vacation between June and August.
 

5.6 Exchanging vacation time for leave

When sick or need to take care of sick children during vacation it is possible to exchange vacation day for absence because of illness or absence to look after a sick child. When required to look after sick children during vacation, notify the department, centre, etc, and the Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan).