Under the Danish Holiday Act the employer is entitled to decide when you take a holiday. Your employer must, to the extent possible, meet your wish and take especially into account employees with children attending school. But generally, the employer can request you to take holiday when the enterprise is shut down for holidays.

The employer must give you at least 3 months' notice before they want you to take your main holiday. If substantial, unforeseen operational matters occur, your employer may in fact also change any holiday previously arranged. In such cases, you must be compensated for any financial loss (e.g. a trip that can be documented to have been purchased) as a result of the postponement. A holiday that has already started cannot be interrupted.

If you start a new job in an enterprise that shuts down for holidays, the deadlines for notification of 1 or 3 three months can be deviated from. In such case, the employer must, at the time of hiring or immediately thereafter, inform you as a newly hired employee that the enterprise has holiday shutdown.

Have you not earned entitlement to paid holiday?

If you are in your first job and you have not earned entitlement to paid holiday, you will have to take holiday without pay. If, on the other hand, you have been unemployed, holiday pay might be paid for the period.

The right to holiday pay presupposes that you comply with the general rules for entitlement to benefits. The holiday pay will usually also constitute the same amount that you can otherwise receive as benefits.