Percentage for construction 14%+4,5%
The calculation basis is based on percentage (18,5%) which is calculated from the cumulative earning earned during the holiday credit year. Salary types which affect the cumulative earnings can be set in Management > Salary info > Holiday pay settings (collective agreements) view after creating a new collective agreement.
Summer and winter holiday days' calculation
Summer and winter holiday days are counted by the following rule: first 24 days are summer holiday days, next 6 are winter holiday days, and following days are summer holiday days, if employee earns more than 30 holiday days per holiday credit year.
Earned and remaining summer and winter holiday days are presented separately in Holidays view of the employee. If there is a need for manual adjustments, it’s possible to adjust remaining summer and winter holiday days separately. Summer and winter holiday days are not separated in salary slip PDF and in Holiday accrual report.
Paying holiday pay
Summer holiday pay (14%) and winter holiday pay (4,5%) are paid separately with their own salary types:
2213 Holiday pay, construction 14%
2214 Holiday pay, construction 4,5%
Holiday pay is paid by using salary slip's Holiday pay button. It’s possible to pay both summer and winter holiday days from the same holiday credit year with the same salary slip. If salary slip already has a winter holiday pay row, it’s not possible to add winter holiday days from the same holiday credit year. This same goes with summer holiday days. If user wants to modify amount of holiday days already set in salary slip, it can be done by editing the existing salary type Qty (pcs) field.
Correcting holiday pay
Correcting holiday pay is done by using Holiday correction button. With percentage construction 14% + 4,5% calculation basis paid summer and winter holiday days are corrected separately with their own fields.
Same as for other calculation basis, Constructions holiday pay can't be activated retrospectively. Already earned holiday days should be added to right holiday credit year manually. This can be done in employee's Holidays view, where it’s possible to edit summer and winter holiday days separately in their own fields.
Starting to use holiday pay and adding old remaining holiday days can also be done by using Set up holiday data view or Holiday import file. With these two options it’s possible to set up data for multiple employees at the same time. When using these two options with Percentage for construction 14%+4,5%, remaining holiday days need to be added separately to remaining summer holiday days and to remaining winter holiday days and (total) Remaining holiday days field should be empty or with zero value.
Percentage for construction 18,5% / 14%+4,5%
The calculation basis Percentage for construction 18,5%/14%+4,5% is based on percentage (18,5%) which is calculated from the cumulative earning earned during the holiday credit year. Difference between these two construction holiday pay settings is, that with Percentage for construction 18,5%/14%+4,5%, Holiday accrual report is calculated with 18,5% from the beginning, so before employee has earned winter holiday days and if employee doesn’t earn winter holiday days, the holiday pay is calculated and paid with 18,5%. Salary types which affect the cumulative earnings can be set in Management > Salary info > Holiday pay settings (collective agreements) view after creation of new collective agreement.
Summer and winter holiday days' calculation
Summer and winter holiday days are counted by the following rule: first 24 days are summer holiday days, next 6 are winter holiday days and after them summer holiday days, if employee earns more than 30 holiday days per holiday credit year.
Earned and remaining summer and winter holiday days are presented separately in Holidays view behind the employee.
If there is a need for manual adjustments, it’s possible to adjust remaining summer and winter holiday days separately. In salary slip (PDF) and in Holiday accrual report summer and winter holiday days are not separated.
Paying holiday pay
Summer holiday pay (14%) and winter holiday pay (4,5%) are paid separately with their own salary types:
- 2215 Holiday pay, construction 18,5%/14%
- 2216 Holiday pay, construction (18,5%) 4,5%
Holiday pay is paid by using Holiday pay button. It’s possible to pay both summer and winter holiday days from the same holiday credit year on the same salary slip. If salary slip already has a winter holiday pay row, it’s not possible to add winter holiday days from the same holiday credit year. The same goes with summer holiday days. If user wants to modify the amount of holiday days already set in salary slip, it can be done by editing the existing salary type Qty (pcs) field.
Correcting holiday pay
Correcting holiday pay is done by using Holiday correction button. Paid summer and winter holiday days are corrected separately in their own fields.
Same as for other calculation basis, Constructions holiday pay can't be activated retrospectively. Already earned holiday days should be added to right holiday credit year manually. This can be done in employee's in Holidays view, where it’s possible to edit summer and winter holiday days separately in their own fields.
Starting to use holiday pay and adding old remaining holiday days can be done also by using Set up holiday data view or Holiday import file. In holiday import file calculation basis code name is CONST2. With these two options it’s possible to set up data for many employees at the same time. When using these two options with Percentage for construction 18,5%/14%+4,5%, remaining holiday days need to be added separately to remaining summer holiday days and to remaining winter holiday days and (total) Remaining holiday days field should be empty or with zero value. When importing holiday settings with the import file the name for new construction holiday setting is CONST2.
Please note that if holiday days are paid already from the current holiday credit year (in a different way than what is instructed in Finnish Annual Act) user might need to adjust the holiday pay amount manually. This is due to:
- Cumulative earnings are not yet from the whole holiday credit year
- Percentages which are used to pay summer holiday pay are not final, since the summer holiday pay is paid either with 18,5% or 14% depending on if winter holiday days are earned or not