l’exercice de vacance

English translation: exercice de vacance vs. année de vacance

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French term or phrase:l’exercice de vacance
English translation:exercice de vacance vs. année de vacance
Entered by: S Kelly

11:23 Jan 17, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources
French term or phrase: l’exercice de vacance
In a outright purchase of a company, the employees and their contracts are being transferred. This paragraph details the terms of their contracts relating to holiday pay, this being a statutory payment that is made in Belgium to all employees.

The issue is the difference between "exercice de vacance" (which in the text is singular) and "année de vacance" (again singular)
I am not sure what they are trying to say.

So it says ...here are the details of the contracts including:
les montants des pécules de vacances pour l’exercice de vacance 2013 et année de vacance 2014 relatifs à l’année 2013 concernant les Travailleurs Transférés (ci-après dénommés les « Pécules »)
S Kelly
Local time: 20:34
exercice de vacance vs. année de vacance
Explanation:
L'année pendant laquelle le travailleur prend ses vacances est appelée année de vacances. L'année pendant laquelle il constitue son droit aux vacances est appelée exercice de vacances. Pour les jours de vacances légalement constitués, le travailleur a droit à un pécule de vacances.

http://www.securex.eu/lex-go.nsf/PrintReferences?OpenAgent&C...

Perhaps you could say: qualifying year and holiday year. It's what the Norwegians do. Or say "the preceding year" instead of "qualifying year"?

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Holiday year: refers to the year in which holiday is taken and paid (based on the holiday rights one has built up during the HOLIDAY SERVICE YEAR).

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/42/4298e90eb011d...

In Belgium employees who have carried out work performances (or who have with normal work enjoyed equivalent periods of interruption) during the calendar year preceding the holiday year (usually the REFERENCE YEAR or HOLIDAY SERVICE YEAR) are entitled to statutory holidays. This means, therefore, that the duration of the paid vacation in a particular year depends on the number of working days or months of the previous year.

http://www.interuse.nl/default2.php?P=226

Belgian holiday regime

Belgium's legislation on employees' annual holiday entitlement is more complicated than it may first appear.

An employee is normally entitled to four weeks' holiday each year (ie, 20 days' holiday for employees who work five days a week or 24 days for those who work six days a week). The difficulty lies in the fact that this annual entitlement is calculated on the basis of days worked - plus days not worked, but treated as days worked(1) - during the year preceding that in which the holiday is taken. Thus, the reference year differs from that in which the holiday is taken.

For example, a worker who has worked six months during the reference year will be entitled to 10 days' holiday during the holiday year. Similarly, a worker who has not worked at all during the reference year will have no holiday entitlement during the holiday year. In these examples, there are no days that are treated as worked days.

http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.asp...

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You're very welcome! :)
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exercice de vacance vs. année de vacance


Explanation:
L'année pendant laquelle le travailleur prend ses vacances est appelée année de vacances. L'année pendant laquelle il constitue son droit aux vacances est appelée exercice de vacances. Pour les jours de vacances légalement constitués, le travailleur a droit à un pécule de vacances.

http://www.securex.eu/lex-go.nsf/PrintReferences?OpenAgent&C...

Perhaps you could say: qualifying year and holiday year. It's what the Norwegians do. Or say "the preceding year" instead of "qualifying year"?

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Note added at 14 mins (2014-01-17 11:37:52 GMT)
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Holiday year: refers to the year in which holiday is taken and paid (based on the holiday rights one has built up during the HOLIDAY SERVICE YEAR).

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/42/4298e90eb011d...

In Belgium employees who have carried out work performances (or who have with normal work enjoyed equivalent periods of interruption) during the calendar year preceding the holiday year (usually the REFERENCE YEAR or HOLIDAY SERVICE YEAR) are entitled to statutory holidays. This means, therefore, that the duration of the paid vacation in a particular year depends on the number of working days or months of the previous year.

http://www.interuse.nl/default2.php?P=226

Belgian holiday regime

Belgium's legislation on employees' annual holiday entitlement is more complicated than it may first appear.

An employee is normally entitled to four weeks' holiday each year (ie, 20 days' holiday for employees who work five days a week or 24 days for those who work six days a week). The difficulty lies in the fact that this annual entitlement is calculated on the basis of days worked - plus days not worked, but treated as days worked(1) - during the year preceding that in which the holiday is taken. Thus, the reference year differs from that in which the holiday is taken.

For example, a worker who has worked six months during the reference year will be entitled to 10 days' holiday during the holiday year. Similarly, a worker who has not worked at all during the reference year will have no holiday entitlement during the holiday year. In these examples, there are no days that are treated as worked days.

http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.asp...

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You're very welcome! :)

Stephen D
Local time: 20:34
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Thanks for the help.
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Asker: Thanks for such a great detailed answer Steve! Ah la Belgique!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: lots of uniquely Belgian terminology that holds no mystery for translators who live in Belgium. There are some fields that have terminology that differs a lot from français de France. (law, HR, education for example)
24 mins
  -> Thanks, writeaway. And yes, but we wouldn't want our job to be easy now...

agree  philgoddard
3 hrs

agree  Victoria Britten
23 hrs

neutral  Andrée Goreux: So, we just leave it in Belgian French?
1 day 3 hrs
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leave year


Explanation:
This is not necessarily the same as either the calendar year or the financial year.

https://www.opm.gov/oca/leave/html/Leaveyeardates.asp
A leave year begins on the first day of the first full biweekly pay period in a calendar year. A leave year ends on the day immediately before the first day of the first ...

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement.../calculate-leave-en...
An employer must usually tell their staff the dates of their statutory leave year as soon as they start working, eg it might run from 1 January to 31 December.

www.adviceguide.org.uk › England home › Work › Time off work‎
Before 1 April 2009, your right to paid holiday from work was 4.8 weeks. Your leave year may have started before 1 April 2009 and carries on after 1 April 2009.

B D Finch
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: definitely not in this Belgian context.
1 hr
  -> You're right, I should have read all of Steve's explanation!
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