A midweek holiday may affect whether earnings-related allowance is paid for a lay-off day. If your employer pays wages or midweek holiday compensation for a midweek holiday, this information must be reported correctly in the application. This ensures that the allowance can be paid correctly.
Earnings-related allowance for a midweek holiday
Earnings-related unemployment allowance can be paid for midweek holidays (arkipyhä) during a temporary lay-off on the same grounds as other days of lay-off, if you do not receive full pay for that day.
However, practices for paying compensation for midweek holidays vary between sectors. Typically, a midweek holiday may appear in your pay in three ways:
➡️ 1. separate midweek holiday compensation
➡️ 2. no separate compensation, but a midweek holiday during a workweek does not reduce the amount of salary paid
➡️ 3. midweek holidays reduce the amount of salary paid
Earnings-related unemployment allowance cannot be paid for a midweek holiday if the employer pays full midweek holiday compensation or if the pay has not been reduced for that day. If the employer pays midweek holiday compensation based on part-time work, earnings-related allowance is also paid for the midweek holiday, and the compensation is taken into account as adjusted earned income.
A maximum of five benefit days per week
Earnings-related allowance can be paid for a maximum of five days per week. For example, if you are laid off from Monday to Friday (5 days) and receive midweek holiday compensation for a midweek holiday falling on a Saturday, the fund can pay you earnings-related allowance for only four days.
Midweek holidays during Easter
During Easter, there are several public holidays in the calendar, some of which are midweek holidays.
The following are considered midweek holidays:
- Good Friday
- Easter Saturday
- Easter Monday
If you receive midweek holiday compensation from your employer for these days, or if your pay has not been reduced due to the midweek holiday, mark the day as “paid midweek holiday” in your application and report the hours for which wages have been paid.
Reporting paid absences in the application
If you receive midweek holiday compensation from your employer or if your pay has not been reduced during the midweek holiday, mark these days as “paid midweek holiday” in your application.
Also report in the application the hours for which your wages are paid during the paid absence.
For example, if you are on sick leave and receive sick leave pay, mark the day as “sick” in your application and report the working hours for which sick leave pay has been paid.
This information is important for the fund, so that we are able to see if your working hours are within limits set for the daily allowance.
Paid absence may include, for example:
- sick leave
- annual leave
- midweek holiday
- worktime shortening (pekkanen)
- flextime holidays
- compensatory time-offs.