Short-term care leave: partially paid
You are annually entitled to leave of maximum two times your weekly working hours to take care of any of the following persons:
- your partner, children, parents, grandparents, grandchildren, brothers and sisters, or other members of your household (e.g. a live-in aunt)
- acquaintances (someone with whom you have a social relationship, for example parents-in-law, a neighbour, or a friend, provided that the care to be provided is a direct result of this relationship)
If it concerns your partner or a child up to the age of 14, the first three working days of the short-term care leave are fully paid. You can request this leave using the Special leave self-service option; under ‘Type of leave’ select ‘Care leave’. Preferably submit your request for paid leave to your manager four weeks in advance.
For the remaining period, and in the other situations mentioned above, you are entitled to 70% of your salary during the leave period, and in any case minimum 70% of the statutory minimum wage applicable to you and maximum 70% of the maximum daily wage as described in Article 17 of the Social Insurance (Funding) Act. You are asked to submit your request for partially paid leave to your manager as soon as possible, preferably four weeks in advance, and complete and submit the Care leave form.
Long-term care leave: unpaid
You are annually entitled to leave of maximum six times your weekly working hours to take care of one of the above-mentioned persons who has a life-threatening illness, or who is ill or requires care for a longer period of time.
Long-term care leave is always unpaid. If the leave lasts longer than two weeks, both the employee’s and employer’s share of the pension contribution will be for your own account during the remaining period of leave. Submit your request for unpaid leave to your manager four weeks in advance and also complete and submit the Care leave form.
Rejection or withdrawal
Your manager may only reject a request for short-term or long-term care leave if this would seriously harm the interests of VU Amsterdam such that your own interests are deemed, in all reasonableness, to be subordinate. If the leave has already been approved, or if you are already on care leave, your manager may not withdraw the leave, unless it concerns short-term care leave and the interests of VU Amsterdam would otherwise be seriously harmed.
More information
- Collective Labour Agreement > articles 4.10 and 4.22
- Special leave scheme