Ascension Day traditionally falls on a Thursday. Employees often have to take the day after Ascension Day off because the company will keep its doors closed that day. Many people are happy with such a long weekend, but what if you do want to go to the office?
Many employers get nothing done if other companies are not available. On a day when many people are free, they often close their doors.
If there is nothing about this in your collective labor agreement or employment contract, but your office is closed, that day is just like a holiday, says Ilse Vermeulen, employment lawyer at HR service provider Please. Then you are entitled to continue to be paid.
But the chance that you can still get to work is small. “If the whole company closes, you usually can’t even get to work.”
It is also possible that your employment contract or collective agreement contains agreements about compulsory days off. “If that agreement is that you take a day off when the office closes, then you’re just out of luck,” says Vermeulen. “Then you’ve lost a day off.”
More and more companies are flexible with days off
Nevertheless, more and more companies are flexible in the distribution of days off. “Take the construction industry, for example. All construction companies used to close during that period,” says Vermeulen. But there are more and more companies that remain open, so that employees can organize their days off themselves.
If you really want to go to work on a day when your employer closes the company, you can go to court. But Vermeulen doubts whether that is a good idea. “Then you put the employment relationship very sharp.” And there is little chance that the company will open its doors to one person anyway.
“I can’t imagine that this happens much in practice,” says Vermeulen. “On such an intermediate day as the day after Ascension, it sometimes makes little sense to work. So people will not make such a problem of it.”
2023-05-19 03:03:28
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