Rights

Rights to Sick Leave

0–3 months of employement= 14 days Next 3 months of employment = 35 days After 6 …

  • 0–3 months of employement= 14 days
  • Next 3 months of employment = 35 days
  • After 6 months of employment = 119 days
  • After 1 year of employment = 133 days
  • After 7 years of employment= 175 days
  • After 12 years of employment= 273 days
  • After 18 years of employment= 360 days
  • Wages are not paid longer than the employment period is intended to last, except for accident wages.
  • With accident pay, 13 weeks or 91 days of day wage is added, except in cases where 273 or 360 days are already accumulated.

Vacation Rights

The vacation year is from 1 May to 30 April. The minimum amount of vacation leave …

  • The vacation year is from 1 May to 30 April.
  • The minimum amount of vacation leave is 30 days or 240 hours.
  • Everybody has the right to minimum leave, if they have not accrued enough paid leave employees may take unpaid leave. Vacation pay is 13,04%.
  • Illness and parental leave up to 6 months are included within this earning period.
  • The time period for summer vacation is 15 May to 30 September. The employee is entitled to all of their vacation during this summer vacation time period if possible.

Employees who, per the written request of their employers, do not receive their full leave during the summer holiday period, shall recieve a 25% extension of the part of their vacation leave which will be taken outside of the summer vacation time period outlined above.

Illness During Vacation

  • If an employee becomes ill during their vacation, the time in which the employee is ill is not considered vacation time, provided that the employee can provide medical documentation that they are not able to take their vacation leave.
  • The employee must notify their supervisor immediately by telephone or telegram in the event of illness or accident during their vacation leave.

Termination Notice Period

Resignation time starts at the beginning of the next month. The trial period is 3 months. …

  • Resignation time starts at the beginning of the next month.
  • The trial period is 3 months. –The termination notice during the trial period is one month.
  • At the end of the trial period, the termination notice period is three months.
  • The termination notice period after 10 years of continuous employment:

 –At 55 years of age – 4 months

 –At 60 years of age – 5 months

–At 63 years of age – 6 months

  • The employee is permitted, however, to terminate their employment with 3 months notice.

Please Note:

  • Management is obliged to give the employee a reprimand before dismissal.
  • Reasons for termination may be lateness, negligence, insubordination or disobedience to management, incompetance or poor work efficiency, drunkenness, behavior that is indecent, innapropriate and incompatable with the job
  • A reprimnd is not required if the termination is due to a contraction, organizational changes or streamlining of the institution.

Shortening of the workweek in the public market

Collective agreements signed in the public sector in winter 2019-2020 contain a provision for changes to …

Collective agreements signed in the public sector in winter 2019-2020 contain a provision for changes to be made to the organization of the working hours and for shortening of the workweek up to 36 hours a week.

The shortening was implemented on 1 January 2021 for daytime workers and 1 May 2021 for shift workers.

The main goal of the changes is to support the reform in the operation of public institutions, improvement of the workplace culture and increase the opportunity of staff to integrate work and private life, without the need to lower the quality and efficiency of provided services.

Here you can see the main points regarding the shortening for daytime workers

Here you can see the main points regarding the shortening for shift workers

Pay increases during the agreement period SÍS

Monthly wages increase as follows during the contract period:

1 January 2020: Wages increase by 17.000 kr.

1 April 2020: Wages increase by 24.000 kr.

1 January 2021: Wages increase by 24.000 kr.

1 January 2022: Wages increase by 25.000 kr.

Holiday bonus

The Holiday Bonus is to be paid on 1 May each year.

An employee in a 100% employment ratio receives a personal supplement on 1 December each year. Payment shall be made proportionally to the employment rate and working hours of the last 12 months before the payment date.

If an employee has retired during the year due to age, he shall receive a personal supplement proportional to the employment rate and working hours.

The holiday bonus is a fixed amount; holiday allowance is not added.

Holiday bonus for 2020, was ISK 50.450

Holiday bonus for 2021, is ISK 51.700

Holiday bonus for 2022, is ISK 53.000

Holiday bonus for 2023, is ISK 55.700

December Bonus

An employee in a 100% employment ratio receives a personal supplement on 1 December each year. Payment shall be made proportionally to the employment rate and working hours of the last 12 months before the payment date.

If an employee has retired during the year due to age, he shall receive a personal supplement proportional to the employment rate and working hours.

The December Bonus is a fixed amount and holidays are not calculated on top of it.

The December Bonus is paid according to the employment ratio and working hours.

The December Bonus is to be settled at the termination of employment.

1 Desember 2019        115.850 kr.

1 Desember 2020       118.750 kr.

1 Desember 2021        121.700 kr.

1 Desember 2022        124.750 kr.

1 Desember 2023        131.000 kr.

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