Leave: Holiday

Regarding holiday leave, there is a difference between personal holiday hours, public holidays (compulsory) and collective days off (compulsory), as detailed below. You can find more information at the RU website.

• Holiday leave: Your holidays are counted in hours (8h= 1 day vacation). You can request leave in BASS to take on personal holiday hours. More information on how to request leave is detailed on the RU website ‘request leave’.
• Public holidays: During public holidays, the university is closed and you automatically have a vacation day without using your personal holiday hours:
  • New Year’s Day
  • Good Friday (exchangeable for another holiday)
  • Easter Sunday
  • Easter Monday
  • 5 May
  • Ascension Day
  • Whit Sunday
  • Whit Monday
  • Christmas Day
  • Boxing Day
  • The national celebration of the Dutch king or queen’s birthday.
• Collective days off: These are days known as compulsory days off and the university will be closed. You will have to take these compulsory days off yourself in BASS.
  • Days between Christmas and New Year
  • Friday morning of the Four Days Marches
  • Friday after Ascension Day
  • 24th of December, if it falls on a Monday
  • 2nd of January, if it falls on a Friday