Up to 150 percent more salary: Who is entitled to a holiday bonus?

Created: 12/16/2021, 08:55 AM

From: Andrea Stettner

At Christmas, a large number of employees can look forward to a holiday bonus.

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Many employees have to work at Christmas and receive a public holiday bonus.

But who will get it?

And how high is it?

If you have to work on the Christmas holidays, you can comfort yourself, because in many industries there is a decent holiday surcharge.

But how much salary * are you entitled to?

Which employees receive a holiday bonus?

Employees are generally not obliged to work on public holidays.

So that public life does not collapse in certain areas, some professions still have to work.

The employment ban on public holidays then does not apply to them.

For this, the employees receive financial compensation, the so-called

allowance

.

According to

work on

a public holiday

also includes working hours from midnight to 4 a.m. on the following day if work began on the holiday.

The industries in which employees are also needed on public holidays include:

• police

• fire Department

• Ambulance service, hospitals and care facilities

• Energy-and water supply

• Agriculture, animal care (e.g. zoos)

• Traffic Company

• Radio and press

• Restaurants, accommodation providers (hotels, guest houses, etc.)

• Theaters, cinemas

• tourism

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Holiday surcharge - so much money beckons for Christmas and New Year's Eve

The holiday supplement is paid in addition to the actual salary and is tax-free up to a certain limit.

The extra money beckons especially on the Christmas holidays, New Year's Eve and New Year.

If you have to work on December 24th, 25th or 26th, from 2 p.m. you usually receive a holiday bonus of around 

for that working day, tax-free, reports the magazine

On New Year's Eve and other public holidays, a tax-free public holiday surcharge of around 100 to 125 percent of wages is customary from 2 p.m. onwards.

Is the holiday surcharge compulsory?

Employers are obliged to either pay a holiday allowance or to give employees a day of rest, which must take place within 14 days.

The regulation of the holiday surcharge is set out in the employment or collective bargaining agreement.

By the way, a corona surcharge beckons for these employees.