Paid leave
The employee is entitled to annual continuous paid leave. The length of leave is equal to:
- 20 days – before 10 years’ service;
- 26 days – after 10 years’ service.
Periods of previous employment, despite breaks in employment and the method of termination of employment are included in the years of service, which provide the basis for the right to paid leave and its length.
Time spent on one’s education is also added to the number of years of service.
- Paid leave in the case of part-time work
Part-time employees are entitled to paid leave proportional to their working time. This means that an employee working e.g. part-time is entitled to 10 or 13 days of paid leave, depending on the aforementioned standard paid leave (20 and 26 days).
- Principles for granting paid leave
Paid leave is granted on days which are normal working days of the employee, in accordance with a valid working time schedule. Paid leave is recalculated to the number of hours, corresponding to the daily work time of the employee on a given day. When granting paid leave in accordance with this principle, one day of paid leave corresponds to 8 working hours.
- Equivalent for unused paid leave
A cash equivalent for unused paid leave is due only in the case of termination of employment or the expiration thereof.
Maternity leave
The employee is entitled to maternity leave, which lasts:
- 18 weeks after the first child was born;
- 20 weeks after the following child;
- 28 weeks, when the woman gave birth to more than one child at the same time.
The maternity benefit is 100 % of the basis.
Parental leave
Parental leave can last a maximum of 3 years for 1 child.
The employee applies for the parental leave at least 2 weeks before it begins. It can be used in 4 parts.
The employee can resign from parental leave:
- at any time - if the employer agrees
- if the employee notifies the employer at the latest 30 days before he/she returns to work
Sickness
The benefit period:
- the benefit period lasts maximum 182 days;
- the rehabilitation benefit for the period of 12 calendar months - after the exceeding 182 days of the rehabilitation period, if the further treatment or therapeutic rehabilitation holds promise that employee will become able to work.
The amounts of the sickness benefit:
- 80% of the basis;
- 70% of the basis when the employee is in the hospital;
- 100% of the basis when disability is caused when the woman is pregnant, or caused by the accident on the way to work or home, or in case of an employee who undergoes necessary medical examination for candidates for donors of organ, cells, tissues.
The amounts of the rehabilitation benefit:
- 90% of the basis of sickness benefit for 3 months (90 days);
- 75% of the basis of sickness benefit for the following period;
- 100% of the basis of sickness benefit is paid to pregnant women or an employee who had accident on the way to work or on the way back home from work.
