Yeah we have something like this as well in finland. Usually you get 2 or 2,5 days PTO per month worked (2 for the first year of employment, then 2,5 for every subsequent year = 24 to 30 days PTO per year). Then you also get vacation pay, which is a bonus that is usually equal to 50% of your average monthly salary. The extra vacation pay can then be “traded in” for another 5 or 6 PTO days. So it’s not exactly a pay reduction, more like a bonus that can be cashed out either in money or time off, or some combination of both. It varies depending on collective agreement, afaik not every sector’s collective agreement has that trading thing.
Fun fact: Vacation pay, or lomaraha (lit. vacation money), used to be called lomaltapaluuraha (return-from-vacation-money), and you would only get it if you returned to the same workplace after your vacation. The purpose was to entice workers to come back to their old workplace after their vacation, instead of just taking the time to look for a new job and fuck off somewhere else. I guess that used to be a problem?
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