Vacation

You must apply for your vacation no less than 60 days prior to the leave. It is preferable to make your application in writing, following your establishment’s set procedures. The article stipulates that if, within 15 working days of your request, you have not received a response, the establishment is deemed to have agreed to your vacation.

Note, also, that you can split your annual leave into several days.

Note that it is always the establishment that has the burden of proof when vacation is denied, i.e., it has to prove that it would seriously disrupt the delivery of the medical care usually delivered by the medical team as a whole in which you are performing your rotation.

You may, at your choice, carry forward to the following year up to 10 days’ unused vacation days. But if they are not taken the following year, they are lost and cannot be taken in monetary compensation. Thus, priority must be given to using the previous year’s vacation, to ensure it is not lost.

Furthermore, if you are on leave for at least nine months during a year for parental (Art. 26) or medical reasons (Art. 28) and this means you were unable to take all your annual leave, your entire balance can be carried forward, even if it is more than 10 days, but for a maximum of four weeks, after you have expressly requested it from the establishment at least two weeks before the end of the year.

Certain standards also apply with regard to the validity of your rotation (a certain percentage of attendance per rotation) if you are considering taking vacation. To that end, you can validate this with your University’s policy to that effect.