• Vacation leave (incl 4+4)
• Study leave
• Buying holiday hours
• Unpaid leave (longer period)
• Good to know!
• Special leave for activities and (family) situations
• Explanation Relationship degree
• Doctor’s visit
• Transition Care Leave
• 'Other' Special Leave Situations -non-family
• Maternity/ Paternity/ Parental Leave
• Emergency leave, short-term and long-term care related leave
• Emergency leave
• Short-term medical care leave
• Long-term care leave
• Informal care (‘mantelzorg’)

Vacation leave (incl 4+4)

Please see 🏝️Holiday and vacation leave

Study leave

For every year, you are entitled to 5 days of study leave based on a 40-hour work week, which will be calculated pro rata if you work part-time. These will expire on 31 December. You can use the study leave if your selected training takes place during working hours. You can apply for leave by using the 🔢NMBRS (app). Use the group ‘study leave’

More on the study budget later in this page

Buying holiday hours

We offer you the opportunity to buy five holiday days , based on a 40-hour workweek, calculated pro-rata if you work part-time. You cannot file a request for this kind of leave through NMBRS. So, please talk to the Request for Leave role to get this arranged.

Note that you won’t acquire holiday allowance, or unemployment rights during those days. We do have some costs, for example, because we continue the payment of the employer's and employee’s contribution of the pension. We will take care of this, so this is a gift from the organization! This goes for the 5 days on a full-time base employment contract. If you want to take more time off you can take longer unpaid leave, the extra costs will be your own responsibility.

Unpaid leave (longer period)

If you want to take a longer leave, for example, to travel the world for a few months, then you may possibly take a longer unpaid leave, provided that the business conditions permit it. This has an effect on your pension plan.

I would like to take longer unpaid leave for x number of weeks/month(s), how does this work?

Step 1. Consult with your Circle Lead and Circle if it is possible for you to be away for a couple of weeks/months

Step 2. If you get a Go from your Circle and Circle Lead then contact the Request for Leave role.

Step 3. Write a request which includes:

• When you want to take unpaid leave
• For how long you want to take unpaid leave and
• With whom (names) you have agreed to your leave.

You can send this to the Request for Leave role.

Good to know!

In the days that you take unpaid leave, you do not build up holiday pay, no holiday hours, no unemployment rights and no pension. You can read more about this on the Rijksoverheid webpage.

In case of a longer period of unpaid leave, you will not receive a travel allowance (nor an internet allowance and other related allowances).

Suppose you choose to take unpaid leave for a duration of two months or more throughout the entire calendar year in addition to your regular holiday leave and purchased holiday leave. In that case, the standard salary raise will not be implemented.

Special leave for activities and (family) situations

There may be special situations where you are not able to work. The following are the most common situations. In these cases, you are entitled to special leave with full pay. Common sense applies here. If, for example, you are invited to a wedding reception only at the end of the day, you do need to work in the morning. You can apply for leave by using the NMBRS app.

*According to the law, a partner is someone with whom you are married or registered as a partner. "Partner" can mean a bunch of things depending on the situation. In this case, when we say ‘partner’, we mean the person with whom you share your life. For example your boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.

Explanation Relationship degree

The degree of consanguinity between individuals is determined by counting the number of births that are situated between them. Parent-child first degree and grandparent-grandchild, second degree.

The degree of consanguinity in the "collateral" is something else. This can be found by counting the number of people with the omission of the common ancestor. So brother and sister are second-degree relatives, uncle/aunt is a third degree and nephew/niece is fourth-degree.

In-laws are called relatives.

Doctor’s visit

A doctor's visit means a visit to the doctor, the dentist, a specialist or a therapist to which you are referred. You plan it in your own time, if that is not possible Then consult with your circle which times are convenient (e.g. beginning or end of the working day). We continue payment of the salary for the time that is needed for the doctor's visit, within the working day, to a maximum of two hours per visit. For seeing a specialist there is a maximum of four hours per visit. You will work the remaining hours before or after the doctor's visit. Upon request, you must be able to prove that the doctor's visit actually took place. The maximum number of hours to be reimbursed can not exceed 8 on an annual basis. In special cases, there can be a deviation of this, in consultation with the employer. You can apply for leave by using the NMBRS app.

Please note that cosmetic treatment (without medical indication), even if performed by a official, physician is excluded from this type of leave)

Transition Care Leave

>This arrangement is valid until Dutch legislation is in place.

Transgender employees working at Voys who wish to undergo surgery to change their gender will be given paid leave to do so.

So-called transition care is not regulated by Dutch law at the moment. Voys wants to be an inclusive employer. In addition to providing a safe working environment for everyone, we also want to include transition leave in our handbook.

To visit doctors, you can request special leave like everyone else. Because we understand that this is an intensive and lengthy process, we will not hold you to the limits set in this paragraph.

You may call in sick for gender reassignment surgery. You do not have to make arrangements with or ask permission from anyone about this.

'Other' Special Leave Situations -non-family

Other personal situations: like loved ones passing away, marriage, the anniversary of non-family members *

Of course, happy or unpleasant things can also happen to non-family members. Therefore, we want to provide leave for these situations. The assessment of whether you want to make use of these days is up to you, but please consult the Request For Leave Helpdesk role upfront. Some examples: marriage or funeral of a person that is important to you.

This type of leave is intended for serious personal situations, it is not intended for example for the following situations: Leave for attending a (kids) birthday party, religious holidays, or celebrating relationships. These are not holidays in disguise. You may be asked for proof.

Please talk to the Request For Leave Helpdesk upfront, so that we can ensure a unanimous policy in allocation. In Nmbrs you then request these hours under the heading 'Special Leave'. Please enter 'SD non-family + description'. By using the tag SD (special day), we can track things a little bit and thus, if necessary, make adjustments.

Maternity/ Paternity/ Parental Leave

We have a separate page for 🐥Maternity / Paternity / Parental Leave .

Emergency leave, short-term and long-term care related leave

If there are urgent private circumstances that are of a very serious nature, you may be eligible for emergency leave, short-term medical care leave, or long-term care leave. Our starting point for this is the legal framework of the Work and Care Act (Wet Arbeid en Zorg). We would like to look at the possibilities with you.

You report the situation of force majeure immediately to the role Request for Leave helpdesk. If this is not possible, report it as soon as possible. We may require that you demonstrate to us that you really haven’t been able to work as a result of one of the given reasons. For example, by submitting a medical certificate. In addition, we keep track of these hours.

Emergency leave

Emergency leave is applicable if there has been an unforeseen emergency with the employee, that can not be delayed. One example is a sudden hospitalization of an immediate family member or your partner giving birth. The length of the leave is dependent on the situation, but presumably cannot be longer than one day. Emergency leave is intended for initial care and arranging a structural solution. We expect you to go back to work as soon as the emergency has been resolved. It is possible that the emergency leave becomes short-term care leave. We are obligated as an employer to pay the full salary of the employee during the emergency leave.

Keywords: unforeseen, serious, short-term (such as arranging care)

Short-term medical care leave

You may submit a request for short-term care leave if it is necessary to care for a sick partner or resident children. Short-term care is applicable when you are the only person who has to take care of an immediate family member (child, spouse or parent).

Short-term care takes up to two times the hours worked in a week. So 80 hours per year for a full-time workweek. You can also take days alternately. By law we are required to pay 70% of the salary, we choose to pay your salary during short-term care leave fully.

If the period of short-term care is not enough then you can also have unpaid long-term care in case of a very serious illness.

The employer may ask to give a reason for the leave once you return. Care leave may be refused by the employer if there are valid reasons to do so. For example, if the company will get in trouble because of the absence of the employee.

For the application of this Act (WAZO) the term "life-threatening illness" shall mean a state of health that is so serious that according to objective medical standards the person's life is in serious danger in the short term.

For the purpose of this Act the term "needy" (in need of assistance) is understood to mean: the condition of a person as a result of which he requires assistance for self-reliance, participation, protected living or shelter that is not provided within the framework of a professional providing assistance and that exceeds the usual assistance.

Taking this leave will affect the amount of your untaxed allowances such as the home working allowance and possibly internet or telephone allowance.

Keywords: you're the only one who can care for your very sick (life-threatening) child, spouse or parent

Long-term care leave

Long-term care is possible in case of a seriously ill spouse, child or parent of the employee. From July 1, 2015 you can also take long-term care leave when it comes to necessary care (helplessness or illness) for grandparents, grandchildren, brothers/sisters, other housemates and people with whom you have a social relationship and are dependent on the help of the employee. The payment of the salary won’t be continued during the period of the long-term care leave. The employer may only refuse permission in case of substantial business interests. You can take 6 weeks of long-term care leave a year, distributed over 18 weeks.

For the application of this Act (WAZO) the term "life-threatening illness" shall mean a state of health that is so serious that according to objective medical standards the person's life is in serious danger in the short term.

For the purpose of this Act the term "needy" (in need of assistance) is understood to mean: the condition of a person as a result of which he requires assistance for self-reliance, participation, protected living or shelter that is not provided within the framework of a professional providing assistance and that exceeds the usual assistance.

Taking this leave will affect the amount of your untaxed allowances such as the home working allowance and possibly internet or telephone allowance.

Keywords: unpaid, for necessary care for others, in case of serious illness

Informal care (‘mantelzorg’)

The official definition used by the government: Caregivers provide unpaid care for a chronically ill, handicapped, or helpless partner, parent, child, or another family member, friend or acquaintance for more than 8 hours per week and/or more than 3 months. A caregiver didn’t choose to provide care, it happens to someone because that person has an emotional attachment to the person who needs care.

The practice has shown that care and work can be combined, as long as it is managed correctly. Both by the organization and by you. In this way, overload can be prevented, and caregivers keep both their work and their family responsibilities well-balanced and properly implemented. Research shows that giving visibility to informal care and discussing it can provide very good solutions. Are you a caregiver? Then talk about it with your colleagues and the Request for Leave role, so together we can look at the possible support options there may be in addition to leave. That’s how we will find workable solutions so that informal care and work can be better combined.

Taking this leave will affect the amount of your untaxed allowances such as the home working allowance and possibly internet or telephone allowance.