Holidays and leave

Every year, the Executive Board sets the dates of the school holidays. More information about the current holiday schedule:

• Holiday schedule 2024-2025 (Dutch)
• Holiday schedule 2023-2024 (Dutch)

Educational support staff may only take leave in the school holidays, with the exception of the first and last week of the summer holidays. To compensate for this, they are given 2 compensation days per calendar year. This applies only to educational support staff. 

The CLA for Secondary Education and the CLA for Primary Education lay down various rules regarding short-term leaves of absence. Employees must always request a short-team leave of absence from their manager or his/her substitute. In addition to the rules laid down in the CLA, doctors’ and dental appointments are also registered as short-term leave and treated as such.  If possible, appointments should be scheduled outside working hours and especially outside class times, or at the beginning or end of the day.

Employees can only save up leave if no colleagues are made redundant or displaced. If this is the case, the Executive Board will announce this prior to the request to save leave or prior to the relevant school year (in the case of current cases).

Saved up leave is indicated clearly in an employee’s annual working hours (schedule)

• See CLA SE - Article 15.8 Attachment 5 Leave saving scheme in secondary education.
• See CLA PE - Article 8.20 Attachment IX Leave saving scheme in primary education.

Information about pregnancy and maternity leave can be found on:

• Information on pregnancy and maternity leave (Dutch)

Information about Partner Leave and Maternity Leave can be found in:

• Information on partner leave/maternity leave (Dutch)