Swedish Compensatory Day Off

The Swedish Compensatory Day Off plugin grants an extra day off when a selected Swedish public holiday with a fixed date falls on a weekend. Some Swedish collective agreements compensate a holiday that would normally be a day off but happens to land on a Saturday or Sunday — most commonly Sveriges nationaldag (National Day, 6 June) — so the employee does not silently lose it.

When to use

Use this plugin when:

• Your collective agreement grants compensatory time off for public holidays that fall on a weekend
• You want the compensation to be awarded automatically, only in the years a holiday actually falls on a Saturday or Sunday

Enable the plugin on a time-off policy alongside the holiday calendar and the account your agreement uses. Turn on exactly the holidays your agreement compensates.

Parameters

The amount is expressed in days and credited in the account’s own unit. A days account receives the flat amount (a day is a day, regardless of working time). An hours account receives the employee’s own working day — the full-time daily norm scaled by the employee’s part-time percentage — so a part-time employee is credited their day, not a full-time one.

How it works

For each enabled holiday, in every year of the forecast:

1. The plugin checks the holiday’s fixed date for that year (for example 6 June)
2. If that date falls on a Saturday or Sunday, and the employee is employed on that date, it grants one accrual of the configured amount
3. The accrual is booked on the holiday’s own date

If the holiday falls on a weekday that year, nothing is granted — there is no day off to compensate.

Only the six holidays above are offered, because they are the only Swedish public holidays with a fixed date whose weekday changes from year to year. Holidays that are always on a weekday (Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day) never need compensation, and holidays that are always on a weekend (Easter Sunday, Whit Sunday, All Saints’ Day, Midsummer Day) are already non-working days.

Examples

National Day only (the default)

1. Add a new time-off policy and choose the account the compensation should credit
2. Select the Swedish compensatory day off accrual plugin
3. Keep National Day (Jun 6) on and leave the other holidays off
4. Keep Amount (days) at 1

In a year where 6 June is a Saturday or Sunday, each covered employee is granted one day; in years where it falls on a weekday, nothing is granted.

Compensating several holidays

1. Add the Swedish compensatory day off plugin
2. Turn on every holiday your agreement compensates (for example National Day and Boxing Day)
3. Set Amount (days) to the number of days granted per occurrence

Troubleshooting