Leave

Leave

Leave registration with JobService applies only to teaching support staff (OOP). For teaching staff (OP), as is the case at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), the timetable serves as the guideline for when leave is taken. Any deviations from this must always be agreed with the line manager.

Leave registration teaching support staff (OOP)

JobService calculates your leave entitlement on a pro rata basis. If you work at the HvA, you are entitled to 428 hours of leave per year on a full-time (40-hour) contract.

If you wish to take leave, please discuss this with your superior. It is advisable to keep track of your leave hours/holiday entitlement yourself using the leave registration feature in HR2day. It is still important that your leave is agreed with your superior, as leave recorded in HR2day is automatically approved. Furthermore, HR2day does not have access to your work schedule.

You must have taken all your leave hours before the end of your employment. If not, these hours will lapse and you will not be paid for them. Only your superior can instruct JobService to pay you for any unused leave hours.

Public holidays are already recorded in HR2day. You must record the HvA’s mandatory days off yourself in HR2day. For 2026, these are the following collective days:

  • Friday 2 January
  • Saturday 3 January
  • Monday 4 May (exchangeable mandatory leave day)
  • Friday 15 May (exchangeable mandatory leave day)
  • Saturday 16 May
  • Monday 28 December
  • Tuesday 29 December
  • Wednesday 30 December
  • Thursday 31 December

Birthleave and partnerleave

The law entitles partners of new mothers to a working week off after childbirth. The number of leave hours equals the number of working hours per week. Are you the mother’s partner? Then you need to take up this leave within 28 days after the birth of the child.

On the delivery date, you are entitled to emergency leave with full payment.

You take up the statutory birth leave and the emergency leave in consultation with your supervisor.

Additional birth leave as of 1 July 2020

From 1 July 2020 on, partners will be able to take a maximum of five weeks of ‘additional birth leave’ when their child is born, pursuant to the Additional Leave (Introduction) Act (WIEG: Wet Invoering Extra Geboorteverlof). The number of leave hours equals the number of working hours per week. You have to take out this additional leave in a period of 6 months. It is only possible to divide the leave in whole weeks.

How to apply?

If you are entitled to apply for one of these regulations. First of all you take up the statutory birth leave and the emergency leave in consultation with your supervisor.

Secondly, at least four weeks before the alleged delivery date, send a request to HvA JobService for additional birth leave. HvA JobService needs to send in the forms for additional birth leave to the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV).

You will have fully unpaid leave. You will be reimbursed 70% of your wage (with a maximum of 70% of the maximum Social Security daily wage) by the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV). More information will be found on the website van de Rijksoverheid (only in Dutch).

Who is the mother’s partner?

Birth leave is for the mother’s partner. You are the mother’s partner:

  • if you’re married to her;
  • if you’re her registered partner;
  • if you’re unmarried to her;
  • if you acknowledge her child.