Sick leave is a special form of the vacation, which is to serve the receipt and the re-establishment of the worker of the person employed.

Duration

The range of the vacation entitlement of an employee depends primarily on the work contract, whereby however collective agreements and above all the law specify minimum requirements, which may not be fallen below contractually. In Germany to that extent "§ 3 federal vacation law is relevant, which plans "24 working-days", what with a 5-Tage-Woche actually however only 20 working days is. For juvenile employees the legal minimum vacation amounts to after "§ 19 law for the protection of young workers depending upon age 25-30 working-days. Severely disabled ones get severely disabled law Zusatzurlaub of 5 working days after "§ 47. Actually most employees in Germany have today a vacation entitlement of approximately 30 days per year. Thus they lie in the international comparison, like accompanying table show, in the upper centre zone.

For officials "§ 5 the ErholungsurlaubsVO of the federation and/or the appropriate parallel regulations of the countries is relevant. From this depending upon age and paying stage 26-30 working days are entitled to the official.

Situation

When defining temporal of the vacation in principle the vacation desires of the employee are to be considered after "§ 7 federal vacation law. This does not apply, if urgent operational interests oppose that. Perhaps also the vacation desires of other employees for social reasons can have priority. The employee has in principle requirement on the fact that the vacation is coherently granted; also here however again operational interests can justify a deviating regulation.

When defining of the vacation by officials the "normal completion of the service business" to be ensured and costs of representation are to be avoided ("§ 2 ErholungsurlaubsVO of the federation and/or parallel regulations of the countries).

Parents put their vacation usually on the vacations to also ensure in order to spend the spare time with the children to be able to go away and/or together with them or in order a support of the children. With teachers and some other vocational fields the vacation generally is in the vacations. Singles and pairs without children at the school age take against it gladly also outside of the vacation time vacation, since the journeys are more favorable then and prevail more peace at the holidays places.

If the sick leave is not taken in the calendar year, it purges, if it non maximally up to 31. March - to the subsequent year one transfers. For not taken days of holiday, the employee has a requirement on compensation for vacation not taken, i.e. a payment only, if it cannot take its vacation due to the completion of the employer-employee relationship.

Right one

During the vacation employees have a requirement on continued payment of the remuneration (vacation payment) after "§ 11 federal vacation law. On tariff or some employers pay additional holiday pay to singlecontractual basis.

In the case of officials the continued payment of paying results out "§ 89 exp. 1 federal official law and/or the parallel regulations of the countries. Holiday pay was granted in the past on legal basis, for federal officials approximately by the holiday pay law. Meanwhile most service gentleman the holiday pay however painted.

History

The first as fixed in the tariff vacation regulations originate from the year 1903. At that time it succeeded to the central association of German brewery workers (forerunner organization of the trade union NGG), to negotiate collective agreements with the Stuttgart ring breweries and the brewery in Greiz. Therein persons employed received after an at least one year's seniority 3 to days paid sick leave.

Vacation organization

One of the classical forms of the organization is the sick leave is the enterprise travel. Some families make a house exchange with other families in their vacation also, in order to save money for the overnight accomodation at the resort.

Besides the free time gives to arrange it in addition, various possibilities at home.

See also

• Vacation
• Overview tourism

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