Holiday pay

In some jurisdictions, holiday pay is an allowance which an employee earns through work in the calendar year prior to the year of the holiday. It is usually a percentage supplement to the salary that has been paid the year before the holiday pay is to be paid.

Holiday pay is a legal term in Norway (feriepenger),[1] Sweden (semesterlön),[2] Denmark (feriepenge),[3] Belgium[4] and the Netherlands[5] (vakantiegeld, vakantieuitkering, or pécule de vacances), Germany[6] and Austria (Urlaubsgeld).[7]

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