“In the event that the employee does not have the right to a paid half-day, and has already used the additional rest time (Mother’s Day or Father’s Day), it is recommended that the parties to the employment relationship agree on unpaid time off in accordance with Article 137, Part 3 of the Labor Code,” says the head of the Labor Law Department. chief labor inspector Ieva Piličiauskaitė-Dulkė. – In addition, at the request of an employee raising a child under the age of 14, the employer must grant the request for unpaid leave in accordance with Article 137, Part 1, Clause 1 of the Labor Code.”
Detailed information on which employees are entitled to mother’s day (father’s day) is published on the VDI website, in the section of the memo for employees and employers (in the section “Additional rest”).
Therefore, it is especially important for these employees to know that, in order to accompany children to educational institutions on the first day of the school year, employees have the right to use an additional rest day on this day. It is important to emphasize that the Labor Code does not provide an additional guarantee for a half-day off on the first day of the academic year for these employees.
In which cases, how much additional rest time belongs to the employee?
If the employee raises: one child under the age of 12 – 1 additional day of rest in three months or reduced working hours by eight hours in three months; one child with a disability under the age of 18 – 1 additional day of rest per month or reduced working hours by two hours per week; two children under the age of 12 – 1 additional day off per month or reduced working time by two hours per week; two children under the age of 12, when one or both of them has a disability, – 2 additional days off per month or reduced working hours by four hours per week; three or more children under the age of 12 – 2 additional days off per month or reduced working hours by four hours per week; two children, but one child under the age of 12, and the other with a disability and over the age of 12 – 1 additional day of rest per month or reduced working time by two hours per week; three children, but one child is under 12 years old, another child is over 12 years old, and the third child is disabled and over 12 years old – 1 additional rest day per month or reduced working time by two hours per week.
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