Former HBO director demands 84 euros in vacation days
He has worked hard and saved a lot of vacation days, says a former director of Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. He demanded payment of 84 thousand euros in court. But he is wrong.
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When he retired in 2015, the man said he still had 1.734 vacation hours, or more than 43 weeks. He demanded that the university of applied sciences would pay him: it involved 84 thousand euros.
Nonsense
The college thought it was nonsense. After all, the man was a director and could organize his own time, as long as he achieved the goals he had agreed with the college board. He didn't have to keep any days off at all.
“It is therefore not customary for leave balances to be accrued, let alone paid out in cash upon departure,” the verdict says. Moreover, the director of his own accord started to 'hoard days off' instead of taking holidays. And he never let the university of applied sciences know that he thought he had such a reservoir of days off.
Lies
The former principal is angry and accuses the college of wanting to cause 'noise' to divert attention. Lies would also be told to cast him in a bad light, and the college's defense would be "often inconsistent." But he does not explain that, the judge concludes.
The judge leaves little to the arguments of the former director, because he was "largely insufficiently able to demonstrate his claims (or even part thereof)."
Elderly
According to the judge, it goes without saying that the man “should not use the option of a weekly reduction in working hours for the elderly in the form of a reduction in hours to give an extra swing upwards to his alleged leave balance”.
So no, the man cannot be proved right by the judge and must reimburse the costs of the proceedings of the college.
