Employment benefits

Easter Eve, Whitsun Eve, Midsummer Eve, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are non-working days. 

Staff work shorter hours on certain days:

• The day before Epiphany, 5 January
• The day of Walpurgis Night, 30 April
• The day before All Saint’s Day (the date varies)
• 23 December if this day falls on a Friday
• Maundy Thursday (Thursday before Easter)

Working hours for part-time staff are reduced according to the same rules as for full-time staff, yet in relation to their contracted number of weekly working hours.

The rules concerning reduced working hours do not apply for staff contracted to work non-regulated working hours or who are subject to certain alternative agreements.

In many positions at the university, you have flexible working hours, allowing you to influence your schedule if it aligns with the needs of the organisation.

Standard rule for teaching staff

Total number of annual working hours:

• 1 700 hours with 35 days holiday
• 1 732 hours with 31 days holiday
• 1 756 hours with 28 days holiday

Standard rule for administrative and technical staff

From 1 September to 30 April, full-time staff in these staff categories work 8 hours and 10 minutes per day (normally from 7.50 am to 4.30 pm with a 30-minute lunch break).

From 1 May to 31 August, they work 7 hours and 30 minutes per day (normally from 8 am to 4 pm with a 30-minute lunch break).

Most administrative and technical staff (more precisely staff with office hours) are subject to a local collective agreement entitling them to flexible working hours within certain limits.

Researchers and "other teaching/researching staff" who do not hold employment as a teacher, formally have working time regulation corresponding to that which applies for administrative and technical staff.

If needed, you can receive special glasses for computer work free of charge.

As an employee with at least 20 percent employment, you are covered by occupational health services for work-related issues. This includes access to doctors, nurses, ergonomists, and psychologists.

If you are ill, you are entitled to sick pay for the first fourteen days. Sick pay is calculated for the days you are absent and equates to 80 per cent of the pay you would have received if you had not been ill. 

For sickness absences exceeding 14 days, we pay your sickness benefit supplement. The supplement is 10 percent of the daily wage up to the national base amount limit, during the first 90 days. On salary portions exceeding the national base amount limit, the sickness benefit supplement varies depending on the number of days of sick leave.

If you are injured at work or on your way to and from work, you may qualify for compensation from the national work injury insurance.

Additional compensation may also be paid as per the agreement on damages for bodily injury.

The group life insurance provides financial protection for survivors in case of death. Read more at the website of the Swedish National Government Employee Pensions Board (SPV)

All employees are covered by business travel insurance through the University.

As a new employee, you are entitled to paid leave starting from your first year of employment. The number of days you receive depends on your age:

• 28 days until the year you turn 29
• 31 days from the year you turn 30
• 35 days from the year you turn 40

Standard holidays for teachers, researchers and doctoral students

The university reports standard holidays (schablonsemester) for teachers, researchers and doctoral students. This means that we automatically enter you holiday in the standard holiday period during the summer, starting Monday week 28 and as far as the days go.

Any person with one of the following job titles is included in the standard holiday:

• Adjunct professor
• adjunct senior lecturer
• adjunct lecturer
• associate senior lecturer
• doctoral student
• postdoctoral research fellow
• visiting professor
• visiting lecturer
• researcher
• professor
• postdoctor
• senior researcher
• lecturer
• senior lecturer

If needed, you can visit a doctor or dentist during working hours. Additionally, you have the right to paid leave for funeral or one moving day.

In Sweden, you are entitled to full parental leave until your child is eighteen months old. You can receive parental benefit to stay at home and take care of your child. Parental benefit is paid out for 480 days for one child.

For each day you receive parental benefit above the basic level from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the University of Gothenburg provides a parental pay supplement. The supplement corresponds to 10 percent of your daily salary up to the social insurance ceiling. For salary above this ceiling, the supplement corresponds to 90 percent of the daily salary.

Parental benefits at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency 

Welcome Services offers information and assistance to international researchers, faculty, staff, and students in matters concerning the arrival to and their stay at the University of Gothenburg.

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As a staff member or doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg, you have excellent opportunities for international exchange. For example, you can take part in staff training or teaching exchanges abroad, or collaborate with universities around the world by participating in international networks and projects.

In the field of education, there are many opportunities to apply for funding for international collaborations, primarily through the Erasmus+ programme, but also from other external funders.

The University of Gothenburg is part of the European university alliance EUTOPIA, which includes ten universities across Europe and six global partners. Within the alliance, close collaborations are being developed in education, research, outreach, and innovation.

A key goal is to increase mobility for students, researchers, and teachers within the alliance. As a staff member at the University of Gothenburg, you’ll find a range of opportunities for collaboration through EUTOPIA.

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