Vacation & Public Holidays
Vacation
The L-GAV provides for 5 weeks of vacation per year. This equals 35 days, spread across a 7-day week. With a 42-hour workweek, one vacation day is worth 6 hours. Vacation reduces the entitlement to rest days on a pro-rata basis — meaning one week of vacation corresponds to 7 vacation days, not 5 vacation days and 2 rest days.
Configuration in JobDone:
- The full-day duration of a vacation day equals the contractual working hours per day. For a 42-hour workweek, this is 6 hours.
- The vacation entitlement is 5 working weeks per year, which equals 35 days.
- A vacation day reduces the target working time.
Public Holidays
Across Switzerland, the L-GAV provides for 6 public holidays at 8.4 hours each per year. According to the L-GAV, the accrual rate is 0.5 days per month. In JobDone, accrual is calculated as 6 days divided by the number of days in the year — for 365 days, this equals a daily accrual of 0.0164 public holidays. This is more precise than what the L-GAV requires and is fully compliant.
Configuration in JobDone:
- The full-day duration of a public holiday is the contractual working hours per week (usually 42 hours) divided by 5, which equals 8.4 hours.
- The public holiday entitlement per year is 6 times the working hours per week divided by 5. So: 42h / 5 = 8.4h × 6 = 50.4 hours per year.
- A public holiday reduces the target working time.
Summary
- Vacation entitlement: 5 weeks of vacation (35 days × 6 hours = 210 hours/year).
- Public holiday entitlement: 6 public holidays × 8.4 hours = 50.4 hours/year.
- Vacation days: Reduce the target working time by the contractual working hours per day.
- Public holidays: Reduce the target working time by the contractual working hours per week divided by 5.