Make the most of your holiday: plan your holiday year
Get as many consecutive days off as possible by placing your holiday strategically in relation to the public holidays for the year. If you are employed by a company which has a collective agreement with Finansforbundet, you are typically entitled to four additional public holidays with full pay per year.
Constitution Day speeches on a Friday
Next year, Whit Monday will fall on 25 May, which makes it less suitable for combining with additional days off as in other years. In 2025, for example, it came right after Constitution Day, which was a Thursday, implying that you could extend your weekend even further by taking the Friday off.
You will not have that opportunity in 2026, but having the Monday off is, in any event, always nice.
Constitution Day is also a day off according to Finansforbundet's collective agreements. If you are planning on attending any Constitution Day speeches next year, you will have to do so on a Friday.
Employer-friendly Christmas or not?
After Constitution Day, paid days off are rare, but hopefully your summer holiday will keep you going.
And before you know it, another year has passed and we have reached December. Then the question is whether the public holidays are to your or your employer's advantage?
Next year, your employer appears to be in luck because one of the public holidays of Christmas, Boxing Day, falls on a Saturday. However, if you take three days off from 28 to 30 December, you will get a Christmas break of 11 days.
Additional days off
If you are employed by a company which has a collective agreement with Finansforbundet, you are typically entitled to four additional public holidays with full pay per year.
- Friday after Ascension Day.
- Constitution Day
- Christmas Eve
- New Year's Eve