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Annual leave for short-term employees may not be taken for several years in a row. Minister of Labor Tuula Haatainen has launched a study examining the possibilities of making the use of annual leave more flexible and transferring it to use during a new employment relationship.Employees working on short-term contracts for different employers may not take annual leave for up to several consecutive years. This is because the right to annual leave accrued during a previous employment relationship is not transferred to a new employment relationship but untaken leave is replaced by holiday pay in fixed-term employment. The purpose now is to find out how it would actually be possible for workers in such a situation to take annual leave with a new employer. By reforming the annual leave law we especially want to improve the equality of those working in short-term employment. The study I have launched is a first step towards more flexible holidays and I look forward to its results says Minister of Labor Haatainen.The study is based on the government programmes record which examines the possibilities of making the use and transfer of leave more flexible in the event of a change of job for example a holiday bank in order to improve equality for those working in short-term employment.The Minister of Labor Haatainen appointed Seppo Koskinen Professor Emeritus of Labor Law and Antti Kondelin a specialist in payroll administration as liquidators. The report shall assess the means by which these objectives in accordance with the Government Program Entry could be achieved. The study is divided into two parts. The first part evaluates the provisions of the Annual Leave Act concerning the granting of annual leave. The second part examines the possibilities for implementing an annual leave banking system in order to safeguard the right to annual leave for those working for different employers on short and consecutive fixed-term periods. An annual leave bank refers to a system in which those working in fixed-term employment could deposit the annual leave they earned for use during the next employment. The report must be submitted to the Ministry of Employment and the Economy by the end of April 2022.
