Sustainable employability is central in the recently concluded CLA Banks. For this reason it has been agreed that from 1 January 2015 employees who have been employed for at least 7 years can take advantage of vitality leave.
Sustainable employability is central in the recently concluded CLA Banks. For this reason it has been agreed that from 1 January 2015 employees who have been employed for at least 7 years can take advantage of vitality leave.
Your years of employment as, for example, temporary staff, are also taken into account. Vitality leave is intended to enable you to work on your employability in the different phases of your life.
In practice this means that you can take leave once every seven years for two consecutive months. It is possible to increase this up to no more than three months with personal leave or by taking unpaid leave. On the other hand you are not allowed to take less than two months leave. In the first month you will be paid 70% of your monthly income and in the second month you will be paid 40%. Another option is to be paid 55% of your monthly income in both months. Your pension accrual will continue in full. If you are older than 60 years you can opt for an adjusted scheme, namely 80%work-80%income-100% pension accrual.
If there is a lot of interest in this scheme the bank can decide to cap the scheme at 1/7th of the eligible employees.
The CLA explains how this works.