Au pair and holiday

You have an au pair entitled to paid holiday.

Your host family has a duty to inform you in writing of the terms of the stay under the Act on
employment contracts. One of the information to be stated in the agreement, your rights
regarding holiday.
There are at. July 1, 2015 introduced new rules of the Holiday Act, which means you can keep
paid holidays already at the beginning of the stay (as-holiday). The new rules apply if you are
after 1 July 2015 or later filed an application for a residence permit as an au pair. They are
described in section. First
If you as an au-pair is not covered by the new rules, you are generally covered by the Holidays
Act general rules. They are described in section. Second
However, if you get 3 main meals a day, or you receive room and board in addition to pocket
money, so you and your host family agree in writing that I do not follow holiday with the general
provisions, but instead follow the special rules set out in 9 law on certain working conditions in
agriculture etc. This must be done no later than at the beginning of the stay. They are described
in section. Third
1. Holiday Act special rules for au-pair persons
Au pair with a residence permit under 9 j and who have submitted an application for a
residence permit July 1, 2015 or later are entitled to concurrency holiday. This means that the
holidays can be kept in step with the vest. You can keep the holiday continuously during the
stay.
earning
If you as an au pair performing domestic tasks 6 days a week, you earn the right to 2.5 days of
paid vacation for each month of stay in residence with the host family. If you perform domestic
tasks five days a week, you earn the right to 2.08 days of paid vacation for each month of stay in
residence with the host family. In a year's stay with the host family, you earn the right to 5 weeks
of paid vacation.
Organising
Your host family must warn the holidays with reasonable notice, which makes it possible for you
to plan your holiday. Your host family must as far as possible take into consideration when you
want to vacation.
For the avoidance of doubt, you and your host family in writing agree on when to take their
holidays.
Payment when the stay ends
When you are on vacation, you get paid holiday. With wages means the pocket money that you
receive during your stay. When the stay stops, your host family pay holiday pay for any accrued
vacation days that you have not kept.
If you are not covered by these rules, the Holiday Act general rules.

2. Holiday Act general rules

If you are not covered by the special holiday rules for au pair persons in the Holiday Act, you are
covered by the Holidays Act general rules.
You have no right to keep the paid holiday from the beginning of the stay. You have the right to
holiday on their own account. If you perform domestic tasks five days a week, your host family
must draw up 4.8% of the month's pocket money per. Today, you are on vacation. If you perform
domestic tasks 6 days a week, your host family must pull up 4% of the month's pocket money
per. Today, you are on vacation.
Earning holidays
If you perform domestic tasks five days a week, so you earn 2.08 annual holidays. month stay. If
you perform domestic tasks 6 days a week, so you earn 2.5 annual holidays. month stay.
Vacation days are earned in the calendar year (qualifying year) and will be used in the following
year. This means that the vacation days you earn in 2014, the ones you need to keep in the
holiday year which runs from 1 May 2015 to 30 April 2016th
Taking holiday
You have the right to hold three consecutive weeks of vacation from 1 May to 30 September
(holiday period). You also have the right to keep any remaining holidays in the context of at least
5 days, but it can last throughout the holiday year.
The organization of paid vacation
Once you have earned pocket money during the holiday, and you then keep the holidays, then
you also have the right to receive 1% holiday allowance of pocket money you've got in the
qualifying year.
You also have the right to have 1% holiday allowance of the tax value of any. room and board
during the qualifying year, because it is part of pocket money. SKAT can tell you about the tax
value.
Holiday allowance on retirement
When you stop, your host family pay holiday pay 12.5% of your total payment in the qualifying
year and the tax value of any. room and board in the qualifying year.
Your host family must pay for the previous qualification if you have earned the right to paid
holiday, but have not yet been held on.
Your host family must also pay holiday pay for the current insurance year.
You should not have calculated holiday pay of the payment that is paid for a period which you
are on holiday, and the holiday allowance, you have already received.
If your host family during the first year, has given you payment during vacation without you had
a right to it, then your host family pay holiday pay to you anyway.
Calculate holiday pay on borger.dk (new window)
If you leave Denmark, when you stop, then your host family pay holiday pay directly to you.
If you do not leave Denmark, then the holiday pay paid to FerieKonto. You will then receive a
letter from FerieKonto before the holiday year begins.

3. Law on certain working conditions in agriculture etc.

If you as an au-pair is covered by the Holidays Act general rules and you get 3 main meals a day,
or room and board in addition to pocket money, so you and your host family agree in writing to
follow the special rules set out in 9 of the Act on certain employment in agriculture, etc. This
must be done no later than at the beginning of the stay.
earning
Here is the vesting period and the holiday the same (as-principle).
Here you earn just right pocket money during the holiday in the first year.
You also earn here entitled to 2.08 days of paid holiday. month stay, equivalent to 25 days in a
calendar year.
If you perform domestic tasks 6 days a week, you earn 2.5 annual holidays. month stay.
Taking holiday
You can already after 1 month's stay keep 2.08 holidays with pocket money.
You can require that 2/5 of holiday during the holiday period 1 May to 30 September, the period
of stay permits.
The other holidays you can keep shared or context.
You must have full allowance incl. food allowance and 1% in the holiday plus the total of
spending money during the holiday.
The value of the diet is calculated on the basis of the Assessment Council for the qualifying year
fixed rates.
On resignation
You and your host family must as far as possible, make sure that you have kept all accumulated
vacation before stopping.
If this is not possible because of illness or injury, you must have payment of pocket money and
the value of diet and holiday allowance for each day of holiday lost.
If you have questions about the rules of the "Law on certain employment in agriculture, etc." and
"Law on employers' obligation to inform employees of the conditions for employment", please
contact the Agency for Labour and Recruitment.

Kilder/Source: http://star.dk/da/Ydelser-og-ferie/Ferie/Ferieregler-for-au-pairer/Vejledning-tilau-pairer.aspx

I translate the Danish agreement/laws regarding Aupairs holiday.

I hope it will help to all Filipina Aupairs
Regards,
Sai Mahris