Annual Leave
Minimum annual leave allowance is 20 days for employees with less than ten years of service, or 26 days for employees with ten or more years of service.
Sick Leave
In Poland, employees are entitled to 80% pay for the first 33 days of incapacitation. Employees are entitled to social security benefit after day 34.
Parental Leave
Maternity leave: Poland offers 20 weeks of paid maternity leave, with no more than six weeks of leave taken before the expected birth.
Employees are eligible for supplementary maternity leave if their infant requires hospital treatment after birth:
- For babies born before 28 weeks or with a birth weight under 1,000 grams, the employee is entitled to one week of leave for each week the baby is hospitalized, up to 15 weeks after birth.
- For babies born between 28 and 37 weeks with a birth weight over 1,000 grams, the employee is entitled to one week of leave for each week of hospitalization, up to 8 weeks after birth.
- For babies born after 37 weeks and hospitalized, the employee is entitled to one week of leave for each week of treatment between the 5th day and 8th week, if the baby stayed at the hospital for at least two consecutive days between the fifth and 28th day after birth.
Incomplete weeks are rounded up to full weeks.
Paternity leave: Fathers are entitled to two week's paid paternity leave, in the period up until the child reaches 12 months of age.
Employees who have adopted a child are entitled to use paternity leave within 12 months of the date on which a ruling on the child's adoption takes effect and until the child reaches the age of 14.
The leave can be taken as one block or divided into two one-week periods of leave.
