Division Two: Types of Contractual Relationship
Title Ten:113 The Employment Contract
Section One: The Individual Employment Contract
C. Obligations of the employer
VIII. Days off work, holidays, and leave
2. Holidays
b. Reduction

Art. 329b

1 Where in a given year of service the employee through his own fault is prevented from working for more than a month in total, the employer may reduce his holiday entitlement by one-twelfth for each full month of absence.[129](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fn-d8e8806) 

2 Where the total absence does not exceed one month in a given year of service and is the result of personal circumstances for which the employee is not at fault, such as illness, accident, legal obligations, public duties or leave for youth work, the employer is not entitled to reduce his holiday entitlement.[130](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fn-d8e8830) 

3 The employer may not reduce the holiday entitlement of:

a.

 a female employee who is prevented from working by pregnancy for up to two months;

b.

 a female employee who has taken maternity leave in accordance with Article 329_f_;

 c.[131](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fn-d8e8862) 

 a male employee who has taken paternity leave in accordance with Article 329_g_;

d.

 an employee who has taken carer’s leave in accordance with Article 329_i_,

 e.[132](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fn-d8e8894) 

 an employeewho has taken adoption leave in accordance with Article 329_j_.[133](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fn-d8e8921) 

4 A standard employment contract or collective employment contract may derogate from paragraphs 2 and 3 provided that, taken as a whole, it gives employees terms of at least equal benefit.[134](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fn-d8e8939) 

[129](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fnbck-d8e8806) Amended by Art. 117 of the FA of 25 June 1982 on Unemployment Insurance, in force since 1 Jan. 1984 ([AS **1982** 2184](eli/oc/1982/2184%5F2184%5F2184/en), [**1983** 1204](eli/oc/1983/1204%5F1204%5F1204/en);[BBl **1980** III 489](eli/fga/1980/3%5F489%5F485%5F469/en)).

[130](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fnbck-d8e8830) Amended by Art. 13 of the FA of 6 Oct. 1989 on Youth Work, in force since 1 Jan. 1991 ([AS **1990** 2007](eli/oc/1990/2007%5F2007%5F2007/en);[BBl **1988** I 825](eli/fga/1988/1%5F825%5F777%5F641/en)).

[131](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fnbck-d8e8862) Amended by Annex No 1 of the FA of 1 Oct. 2021, in force since 1 Jan. 2023 ([AS **2022** 468](eli/oc/2022/468/en);[BBl **2019** 7095](eli/fga/2019/2553/en),[7303](eli/fga/2019/2640/en)).

[132](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fnbck-d8e8894) Amended by Annex No 1 of the FA of 1 Oct. 2021, in force since 1 Jan. 2023 ([AS **2022** 468](eli/oc/2022/468/en);[BBl **2019** 7095](eli/fga/2019/2553/en),[7303](eli/fga/2019/2640/en)).

[133](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fnbck-d8e8921) Amended by No II 1 of the FA of 20 Dec. 2019 on Improving the Compatibility of Work and Caring for Family Members, in force since 1 July 2021 ([AS **2020** 4525](eli/oc/2020/799/en);[BBl **2019** 4103](eli/fga/2019/1504/en)).

[134](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/27/317%5F321%5F377/en#fnbck-d8e8939) Inserted by No I of the FA of 16 Dec. 1983, in force since 1 July 1984 ([AS **1984** 580](eli/oc/1984/580%5F580%5F580/en);[BBl **1982** III 201](eli/fga/1982/3%5F201%5F177%5F161/en)).