Rules concerning care days

You have the right to care days if you are covered by the collective agreement between Finansforbundet (Financial Services Union Denmark) and Finans Danmark (Danish Employers’ Association for the Financial Sector) and receive full salary from your employer. This means that you also have the right to care days if you are ill and receive salary during illness or if you are on paid leave, e.g. pregnancy, parental or adoption leave or leave for taking care of terminally ill persons.

However, you do not have a right to care days:

If you have been employed for less than one month
During periods where you do not receive full salary or, for example, in connection with parental leave, you are only paid pension contribution and not a salary.

Care days - summarized

There are many rules concerning care days and it can be difficult keeping ahead of them all. When do you get care days and what happens to them when you resign from your workplace or change jobs? Get a quick answer of the most common questions asked about care days or read more of the details below.

If you are an insurance agent and are employed pursuant to the Insurance Agent collective agreement, you have the right to five days of care days per year. You pay for the days yourself, unless otherwise agreed locally. However, it is a prerequisite that a local agreement has been reached concerning how you should pay for the days of care days.

How many care days am I entitled to?

As a general rule, you are entitled to a maximum of five care days per year. Your five care days will be credited to your time bank, which is typically done on January 1st of each year. Some companies have chosen to follow the holiday year and therefore put the care days in the time bank on September 1st. This means that you are allocated hours equal to your annual standard divided by 52 weeks (your employment rate).

If you have an annual standard of:

1924, 37 hours are allocated in the time bank
1872, 36 hours in the time bank
1560, 30 hours in the time bank

How and when can you use your care days?

As a general rule, you must use the care days as whole days, unless a local agreement is in place at your company that allows you take the leave in half-days or by the hour.

There is no agreement in place as to the notice you must provide prior to using your care days. However, the general rule is that you must enter into an agreement and take into consideration the operation of the workplace. This could mean that your employer may deny your request if it will have a major impact on the company.

If you disagree on when to take care days, you can contact your professional representative.

What happens if I resign or am dismissed?

If you are dismissed or resign, the unused days of care days are converted to hours and added to your time bank.

However, your company may have entered into a local agreement that prevents the care days from being transferred to the time bank. This means that your employer may demand that you either use the care days in a release period or that you can get it proportionately paid out when you resign. The number of days of care days are calculated as follows:

Before 31 March: one day of care days
before 30 June: Two days of care days
before 30 September: Three days of care days
latest 30 November: Four days of care days
after 30 November: Five days of care days

Would you like to learn more about care days?

You can read more about the rules for care days in the guide Guidelines on care days (in Danish)

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