Holiday Regulation

Basic data
Title:	Ordinance on the recreational leave of civil servants and judges of the federal government
Short title:	Holiday Regulation
Previous title:	Ordinance on recreational leave for federal officials and federal judges
Abbreviation:	EUrlV
Type:	Federal Ordinance
Scope:	Federal Republic of Germany
Issued on the basis of:	Section 89 BBG , Section 46 DRiG
Legal matter:	Administrative law , civil service law
References :	2030-2-3
Original version from:	August 6, 1954 ; ( BGBl. I p. 243 )
Entry into force on:	April 1, 1954
New announcement from:	November 11, 2004 ; ( BGBl. I p. 2831 )
Last change by:	Art. 47 Regulation of June 19, 2020 ; ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1328, 1333 )
Effective date of the ; last change:	June 27, 2020 ; (Art. 361 of June 19, 2020)
Weblink:	Text of the regulation
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The ordinance on the recreational leave of civil servants and judges of the federal government regulates the granting of annual paid vacation leave for federal civil servants and federal judges .

In addition, special leave is to be granted for certain individual cases according to the Special Leave Ordinance (SUrlV), partly with continued payment of salary, partly without.

The holiday regulations of the federal states contain corresponding regulations for the civil servants of the federal state, the districts and the other bodies, institutions and foundations under public law that are subject to the supervision of the federal state. The holiday regulations apply accordingly to judges in the national service.

Federal regulation

According to Section 5 (1) of the Federal Recreational Leave Ordinance, the regular working hours of which are spread over 5 days in the calendar week, the duration of annual leave is 30 working days for each holiday year.

If the working week is different, a different number of vacation days may have to be granted. Severely disabled civil servants also receive an additional 5 days' leave.

People who are only hired within the calendar year, who end their service or who are on leave, only receive the above-mentioned proportions. Vacation entitlements.

At the request of the civil servant, the employer must grant the leave in such a way that the proper handling of official business is not endangered. The official has to leave a vacation address, since the granting of vacation can be revoked in the event of an urgent business necessity. Vacation should be taken within the calendar year; vacation entitlements expire if they are not taken within 12 months of the following calendar year.

For teachers at Bundeswehr technical schools as well as professors and junior professors at universities, the vacation is compensated with the time without classes or lectures.

State regulations

When a civil servant is transferred in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, the problem arises that he or she does not resign and therefore the proportional vacation grant cannot necessarily take effect. In the Recreational Leave Ordinance for the State of Schleswig-Holstein there is no regulation on the granting of leave when an official is transferred. However, the civil servant is entitled to vacation leave for each calendar year. He can apply for this vacation from the old or new employer. It is up to the two employers to find a solution. This can be done via the declaration of consent to be obtained for the purpose of transfer. The declaration of consent can be linked to a condition that could then regulate the granting of vacation.

In most federal states, special leave is also regulated in the same ordinance as holiday leave . Only the states of Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein regulate this fact in separate regulations. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania applies the federal SUrlV.