The paid annual leave shall be calculated on the basis of 2 and 1/2 days per month of work. The total duration of the leave cannot, however, exceed 30 calendar days per year.

Workers in the southern provinces (""wilayas"") of Algeria are entitled to additional leave of at least 10 days.

Workers engaged in particularly arduous or dangerous work can be entitled to a longer leave period determined by collective agreements.

The compensation paid for the annual leave shall be equal to 1/12 of the total remuneration perceived by the worker during the reference year of the leave or the preceeding year of the leave.

The period of annual leave for workers is of 22 days per year, not including weekends, complementary weekly rest days and holidays in this calculation.

The remuneration of the worker during the annual leave must be equal to his/her salaray plus any other benefits or bonus he/she accumulated during his/her period of work.

Besides that, to the remuneration due as salary to the worker during annual leave, he/she shall also be granted 50% of the wage basis as leave bonus.

Total: 150% salary.

Unless there are more favorable provisions in collective agreements or employment contracts, the worker acquires the right to leave, to be paid by the employer, at the rate of 2 working days per month of effective service. A working days is every day other than the day of weekly rest period and holidays.

The duration of the leave forseen in paragraph 1 of the present article is increased at a rate of 2 working days after 20 years of continuous effective service in the same company, 4 working days after 25 years, 6 working days after 30 years, without having the cumulation of the total days of leave exceeding 30 working days for 12 months of work. The increase on leave entitles the worker to an increase of the leave payment.

The employer shall pay to the worker, during the total duration of the leave, 1/12 of the salaries and benefits received by the worker in the course of the 12 months preceeding the leave.
Bonuses, indemnities constituting reimboursements of professional fees, and particular indemnity paid to expatriates, shall not be included for the calculation of the leave payment.
In case of splitting, the payment shall be divided proportionally to the duration of each period of leave.

Every employer shall grant to every employee employed by him leave with basic pay at the rate of not less than 1,25 days per month.

The basic pay payable in respect of any period of leave for which this section makes provision, whether accumulated or otherwise, or in accordance with subsection (6)(b) shall be the current basic pay.

The employee has a right to a paid leave chargeable to the employer, at the rate of two and a half calendar days per month of effective service, except more favorable provisions of collective agreement or individual employment contract.

For the calculation of the duration of the leave acquired, the absences due to accidents at work or professional illness, the legal periods of rest for pregnant women, the periods of compulsory military service, not even to the limit of one year, illness duly attested by a medical certificate and exceptional permissions, shall not be deducted from the leave.

Whenever the days of leave is not a whole number, the duration of the leave is rounded to a whole number immediately superior.

The duration of the leave provided in article 156 above is increased at the rate of two working days after 20 years of continuous service or not in the same enterprise, of four days after 25 years and 6 days after 30 years.

The employer must give to the employee, before his/her departure on leave and for the whole duration of the leave, an allowance that is at least equal to the average of the wages and the various elements of remuneration defined in art. 191, which the employee benefited from during the 12 months preceeding the date of the departure on leave.

Unless there are more favorable provisions in collective agreements or individual employment contract, the leave payment shall be calculated as follows:
a) Determination of the monthly average salary of the 12 months preceeding the departure on leave;
b) Division of the monthly average salary by 30 in order to obtain the daliy average salary;
c) Multiplication of the daily average salary by the number of days of the calendar days of leave to which the worker is entitled to.

The worker hired to work by hour or by day for a short-term position not exceeding one day, shall have his/her leave paid at the same time as the salary due, at latest at the end of the day of work, as sort of compensation for the paid leave, calculated on the basis of 1/12 of the daily remuneration acquired.

The collective agreements or, in its lack, the orders from the Ministry of Labour, enacted after consultation with the Consultative Labour Comission, shall establish the minimum amount of the in-kind benefits, which the worker will not enjoy during the leave and which shall be taken into account when of the calculation of the leave benefit.

The employer must give to the employee, before his/her departure on leave and for the whole duration of the leave, an allowance that is at least equal to the average of the wages and the various elements of remuneration defined in art. 191, which the employee benefited from during the 12 months preceeding the date of the departure on leave.

Every worker is entitled, each year, to annual leave paid by the employer, in the following conditions:

B)Duration of the annual leave.

The duration of the annual leave to which the worker is entitled shall be fixed by the Minister having Labour as one of his working issues, after having consulted the National Labour Council, whenever there is no collective agreement regulating the subject.

However, the duration cannot be inferior to:
1 and 2/3 working days per month completed of service. The right to the leave is assured after a working time of at least one month.

For each working day of the leave, the worker is entitled to a benefit equal to the daily wage, paid by the employer, as defined by art. 15. However, the employer is not obliged to pay circumstantial leaves, unless the worker has already worked for at least 15 days.

Besides that, the worker has also the right, during the annual leave, to all in-kind payments due by the employer. Once the worker requires it at least 8 days before the beginning of the leave, the employer is obliged to pay the amount in cash of the due in-kind payments to the worker, with the exception of furniture and accomodation.

The benefits for the annual leave shall be paid to the worker:
a) at the latest, the last working day before the beginning of the leave, whenever it is not a circumstantial leave.

Unless there are more favourable in collective agreements or employment contracts, the worker acquires the right to annual leave at the rate of one and a half days per month of effective service, paid by the employer.

Employees and employers can agree on more favourable duration of paid leave in a collective or an individual agreements.
Annual leave is increased, taking into account seniority in the company, at the rate of 2 working days per integral period, continuous or not, of 5 years of service. In the case of mothers, this increase cummulates with that forseen in the preceeding paragraph.
Compensation instead of leave is only possible when the contract is terminated before the worker has exercised his right to leave. In all other cases payment of compensation in lieu of leave is prohibited.

The employer must pay to the worker, at the latest the day before the start of the leave, an allowance of which modalities of calculation are established by decree after consultation with the National Consultative Comission of Labour.

The employer must pay to the worker, at the latest the day before the start of the leave, an allowance of which modalities of calculation are established by decree after consultation with the National Consultative Comission of Labour.

Every worker in a employment contract for an indeterminate period is entitled to twenty-two days of annual leave.

The preceeding paragraph applies equally to the workers hired for a pre-determined period, since the duration of the contract, initally established or due to a renew of the contract, is not inferior than one year.

For contracts with a duration inferior to one year, the annual leave shall be proportional to the duration of the employment contract.

Unused leave may be transferred to the next year and add up to a maximum of 44 days, provided the parties agree or if the non transfer would endanger the worker or the enterprise.

The remuneration for the annual leave to which the worker is entitled cannot be inferior to that s/he would receive if s/he was working.

The additional remuneration in kind can be replaced for the equivalent in cash during the annual leave. However any in kind payment due the worker, which payment is attached to the execution of the work, is not due.

The duration of the annual leave can be extended by virtue of seniority according to the modalities determined by a collective agreement.

The employer shall pay to the worker, when of the leave, an amount not inferior to the remuneration s/he would receive if s/he had worked during the period of the leave. This remuneration comprehends not only the average salary, but also the benefits, primes and comissions which the worker was receiving during the course of the 12 months preceeding the leave.
Exceptional rewards, compensation constituting reimboursement of professional fees, in kind payments and legal advantages linked to the obligation to provide housing shall not be counted for the purposes of calculating the payment for the leave.

The worker is entitled to two days per month of paid leave - to be paid by the employer.
One month of effective work is the period equivalent to 4 weeks or 24 days of work.

The duration of the annual leave can be increased by a collective agreement, particularly those in favor of young people under the age of 18 years, mothers, and workers having acquired a certain seniority at the company.