If you fall ill before your annual holiday starts or during your annual holiday, you can request that your holiday be postponed.

If the worker knows she/he will need to undergo medical treatment or similar care during the planned holiday, she/he has the right to postpone the holiday. A request for postponement must be submitted to the employer before the annual holiday begins.

If worker gets sick before the start of the annual holiday or during the annual holiday, she/he can request to postpone the holiday. This right applies to both the beginning and during the annual holiday due to illness, accident, or childbirth. The right to move holiday to a later time only applies to statutory annual holiday. Worker has the right to move the holiday to a later time only after the possible waiting period. This period is six days at most. The waiting period only applies to holiday longer than four weeks.

The waiting period is calculated for the whole year. This means that worker should always report the sick days from even short holiday periods and get a doctor’s certificate for them. The total number of sick days during all the holidays can then be counted.

It is important that you tell the employer immediately if you are sick and give the employer a doctor’s certificate if that is the rule at your workplace. You must report your sickness and ask for the holiday to be moved as soon as you can. The holiday will not be moved to a later time if you have not asked for it.

If the summer holiday has been moved to a later date, you have the right to take it by the end of the holiday season (September 30) for summer holiday, and before the start of the next holiday season (May 2) for winter holiday. If this is not possible, the moved holiday may be given during the holiday season of the following calendar year and must be given by the end of that calendar year at the latest. If holiday cannot be granted in this way, the holiday not taken due to sickness is paid to the employee as holiday compensation.