Per January 1st 2012, the legislation concerning leave days has been changed, causing the statutory part of your leave to expire 6 months after the end of the fiscal year, rather than 5 years, as it was before. So if your company’s fiscal year starts on January 1st 2015, the statutory part of your balance will expire on July 1st 2016.
Activate this legislation
The administrator can activate the Dutch legislation of 2012 by going in the menu on the left. Navigate to ‘Settings (gear icon top right)’ ⇒ ‘Master data’ ⇒ ‘Types of leave’. Please select the icon of the pencil for the type of leave “normal leave”.
- Fill in the field Include max. number the number -1 (minus 1). This way the expiration of leave will be handled by the rules of calculation method of the leave legislation.
- Here you find the possibility to select the calculation method “Dutch legislation 2012”.
- Click on Save.
- When there are more types of leave that need this division between statutory and exceeding statutory leave, you just have to repeat the above mentioned steps.
At the end of the fiscal year, all the leftover balance will be transported to the next your automatically after having processed the fiscal year.
If you are in the process of starting with Leavedays, you can also import transport adaptations according to the Dutch legislation.
Attention! Think before you change types of leave and/or employments. A changed type of leave could retrospectively alter a balance.
Annual leave summary
As soon as the legislation has been applied correctly an overview will become available via the personal balance summary. Read here more about this overview.