Collective labor agreement agreements on holiday leave 40-hour working week
How many holidays do I have and is it correct that I give up holidays? All the answers about the collective labor agreement agreements.
What has been agreed about vacation leave?
Holiday leave is expressed in a number of hours per year for all employees. With a 40-hour working week, a full-time employee is entitled to 428 clock hours of vacation leave, including public holidays. The holiday leave is taken during the school holidays.
For correctional institutions and pilot schools, with the consent of the staff section of the GMR, they can deviate from the manner of taking the holiday leave, provided that there is an uninterrupted period of holiday leave and a period of at least 4 weeks during the summer holidays.
Why is vacation leave including public holidays?
It is customary in the Netherlands for holiday leave to include public holidays. The fact that it was not yet regulated in this way in education was an exception.
Is it true that I am returning a holiday?
It is not true that you give up vacation. The Ministry of Education prescribes 11 weeks of vacation. For 2015, the CLA already stated that you can be recalled from it for a maximum of three days. This gives you a holiday of 10,7 weeks per year. These 10,7 weeks per year also remain in force in the current scheme. So you do not give up a holiday.
With the introduction of the 40-hour working week and vacation leave, the holidays of students and teaching staff no longer automatically run parallel. Education staff can now also have to work when the students are free. But nowhere does it say that you have to work at school on those days. You could also schedule it so that you work from home those days. There are boards that schedule a study day or work that is not time and place bound during the students' holiday period. Ultimately, you do not give up holiday hours, because everyone keeps 428 hours of holiday leave. The working week has been reduced from 42 to 40 hours.
Still I have to work more, how is that possible?
Schools may partly arrange and plan holidays themselves. It may therefore be the case that schools give more holiday weeks. There are school boards that still hand out adv hours and grant compensation leave. Adv has already been abolished in 2009 and compensation can only be given if more than 930 hours of teaching are given and the other tasks are not adjusted proportionally, resulting in more than 1659 hours of work. This creates a lot of inequality between staff members in primary education.
We have been hearing from the field for years that the workload is too high. This is partly because the same work (1659 hours) has to be done in fewer weeks. In those weeks, the teaching staff has to work more hours and that increases the workload. We don't want that. By now introducing the 40-hour working week at all schools and ensuring that we work 41,3 weeks, the annual task can be achieved with 40,2 hours (rounded off 40 hours) of work per week.
1659 hours / 41,3 working weeks = 40,2 working hours per week.
1659 hours / 40 working weeks = a higher workload of 41,5 hours per week,
1659 hours / 39 working weeks = an even higher workload of 42,5 hours weeks per week 1659 hours / 38 working weeks = 43,7 hours working per week to still achieve your standard annual task, which means a very high work pressure.
