Hindrance-blocked holiday must transfer by 30 September

Holiday blocked by a hindrance can now be transferred only inside a fixed window: from 20 January to 30 September.Virk Until now the employer guidance set only the opening of that window ('from 20 January after the end of the holiday period') with no end dateVirk; the closing date of 30 September is newVirk, narrowing when employers may move blocked holiday into the following holiday period.

The surrounding transfer rules are unchanged. Employees accrue holiday in the holiday year from 1 September to 31 August and take it in the holiday holding period from 1 September to 31 December of the following year, with transfers running from one holding period to the next. Two transfer tracks exist. Holiday beyond four weeks moves by agreement between employer and employee: the transfer is possible from 1 November to 31 December, requires a written agreement concluded before 31 December while the employee is still employed, and the employee has no right to it without the employer's agreement — collective agreements may further limit the possibility.

The second track covers employees prevented by special reasons from taking holiday before 31 DecemberVirk — illness and maternity leave are the examples named, with the full catalogue of recognised hindrances in the dedicated bekendtgørelse. Only the days actually blocked by the hindrance moveVirk, and at most four weeks of the employee's holidayVirk. The guidance's example is unchanged in substance: an employee with 10 days owing who reports sick for the last 2 working days before the period ends on 31 December may transfer 2 of the 10 days on hindrance grounds. What changes is timing discipline — that transfer must now be executed within 20 January to 30 SeptemberVirk.

For payroll practice the new end date matters most for employees on long sick leave or parental leave spanning the new year: their blocked days still qualifyVirk, but the employer must complete the transfer by 30 September rather than at any later pointVirk. The employer reports the number of days transferred on hindrance grounds through FeriepengeinfoRetsinformation, which forwards the notification to the holiday-pay disburser; employees outside employment report the hindrance themselves with documentation from a public authority or an unemployment fund. Legal basis: the transfer-on-hindrance rule of ferieloven § 22, with the hindrance catalogue and Feriepengeinfo reporting in bekendtgørelse om feriehindringer §§ 2–3, as applied on virk.dk's 'Feriepenge' employer page.