B1 · Intermediate
Vacation Pay and Pension Savings
Understand how you earn and get paid for vacation in Denmark, and read the ATP and pension lines on your payslip.
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Explore every meaning in this unit. Learn how to say it in Danish when you start.
- a vacation
- to take a vacation
- a vacation day
- to earn, to accrue
- concurrent holiday (earned and used in the same period)
- a holiday year
- a period for taking earned vacation
- a holiday balance
- paid leave
- a salaried employee
- a holiday supplement
- paid by the hour
- a holiday allowance (instead of pay during vacation)
- holiday pay
- to pay out
- to leave (a position)
- a departure from a job
- to settle (an account)
- a pay stub
- ATP (the mandatory Labor Market Supplementary Pension)
- an ATP contribution
- a pension, retirement income
- an occupational pension
- a pension plan
- a pension contribution
- collective agreement
- a free-choice account (pay you can take as cash, time off or pension)
- union representative
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Vacation Pay and Pensions
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