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They are refusing to give me my vacation or to pay for it

The right to vacation is 4 weeks minimum per year (5 weeks for young people up to 20 years years of age, art. 329a CO). Vacations must be taken in kind — their financial compensation is only permitted at the end of employment relationships (art. 329d al. 2 CO). The employer sets the date of…

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# Applicable Legal Provisions

Critical Deadlines

  1. Balance Statementimmediate
  2. # Written request to the employerbefore the end of the relationship (CO 329a / CO 329d)
  3. Formal noticeafter 14 days without response (I'm ready to translate the text from French to English as a Swiss legal translator. However, I notice that the text you want me to translate is just a placeholder: CO 104 Please provide the actual text you would like me to translate, and I will: - Preserve every protected token (__JB_KEEP_*__) - Keep all URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders exactly as they appear - Apply the preferred glossary: - formal notice => formal notice - payment order => payment order - lease agreement => lease agreement Once you provide the text, I'll return only the English translation.)
  4. # Action at the Industrial Tribunal --- **Note:** The text you provided is a French heading. A direct translation would be "Action at the Industrial Tribunal" or "Claim before the Industrial Tribunal" (the *tribunal des prud'hommes* being a French labor/employment court). However, if you intended to provide a longer text for translation, please share it and I will translate it while preserving all protected tokens, URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders as instructed.in the 5 years (CO 329d / CO 128 ch.3 / CPC 243)

Keywords

holidays notice days I appreciate your request, but the text you've provided to translate consists only of the word "report" - which is already in English. Could you please provide the French text that needs to be translated into English? Once you share the complete text, I'll be happy to translate it as a Swiss legal translator, following your preferred glossary and preserving all protected tokens, URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders exactly as requested. compensation

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