Remarks: The Luxembourg Business Portal (Guichet Entreprises) is a good source of information on working conditions in Luxembourg. The website is available in English. http://www.guichet.public.lu/en/entreprises/ressources-humaines/index.html
The website of the Government of Luxembourg (Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) provides a Legal Database with updated legislation available in French.
The legal duration of annual leave is set to 25 working days per year.
Supplementary leave of 6 days for workers with disabilities and for physically or mentally disabled persons.
For the first year the employee can claim 1/12 of the holidays for every month worked.
Labour Code Art. L233-4, L. 233-7.
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 25 days per year.
Supplementary leave of 6 days for workers with disabilities and for physically or mentally disabled persons.
2007: 25 days per year.
Supplementary leave of 6 days for workers with disabilities and for workers who do not benefit from 44 hours of continuous weekly rest. One extra day of leave is granted for enrollment in military service.
1995: 25 working days.
Payment
Amount
An employer must continue to pay the employee during the period of paid annual leave.
Leave allowance represents the employee’s average salary, including overtime and fringe benefits: - during the 3 months prior to the leave; - or the past 12 months for employees whose pay is subject to significant variations (salary paid as a percentage of sales, depending on turnover, etc.).
Non-regular payments (bonuses, performance-related bonuses, etc.) are not taken into account.
Labour Code Art.L233-14
Number and dates
10 days: New Year, Easter Monday, 1st of May, Ascension, Monday of Pentecoste, Birthday of the Grand Duke on 23 June, Assomption, All Saints`Day, First and Second Day of Christmas.
Labour Code Art.L232-2
Payment
Public Holidays are to be enjoyed with pay in the amount that corresponds to the regular hours of work.
Labour Code Art.L. 232-6.
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of - Working time - 2007
LAST UPDATE
Information was last updated on 18 June 2007.
Duration
General
20-26 working days, as specified in a collective agreement in accordance with years of service and working conditions
1: §137-1, §138-1
Exceptions
3 additional day for older workers.
1: §48-4, §137-2
Malta - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
11 July 2012
Remarks: The webiste of the Ministry of Justice, Dialogue and the Family (MJDF) provides an online database with up to date legislation in English. http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/LOM.aspx?pageid=24
Duration
General
Every worker shall be entitled to paid annual leave of at least the equivalent in hours of four weeks and four working days calculated on the basis of a 40 hour working week and 8 hour working day.
Organisation of Working Time Regulations Art.8(1)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 4 weeks and 4 working days calculated on the basis of a 40 hour working week and 8 hour working day.
2007: 4 weeks and 4 working days calculated on the basis of a 40 hour working week and 8 hour working day.
1995: 4 working weeks and 4 working days.
Exceptions
When an employee is in employment for less than twelve months in any calendar year, the worker shall be entitled to such annual leave as is in proportion to the period in employment.
In cases where the average weekly working time, calculated on the basis of a reference period of seventeen weeks, is below or exceeds forty hours per week, the annual leave entitlement in hours shall be adjusted accordingly.
Organisation of Working Time Regulations Art. 8(1)(4)
Payment
Amount
No expressly provided the amount, however it seems that such leave is enjoy with full pay.
Organisation of Working Time Regulations Art.8(1)
Number and dates
14 days.
List of National Holidays: 21st September, Jum 1-Indipendenza; 13th December, Jum ir-Repubblika, 31st March, Jum il-Helsien; 8th September, Jum il-Vittorja; 7th, the Sette Giugno.
List of Public Holidays: 1st January, New Year´s Day; 10th February, Feast of St. Paul´s Shipwreck; 19th March, Feast of St. Joseph; Good Friday; 1st May, Workers´Day; 29th June, Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul; 15th August, Feast of the Assumption; 8th December, Feast of the Immaculate Conception; 25th December Christmas Day.
The aforementioned days of each year and Sundays shall be public Holidays in Malta.
National Holidays and other Public Holidays Act Schedule, Art. 2, 5(1)
Payment
Public Holidays shall be enjoyed with full pay.
Organisation of Working Time Regulations Art.8(5)
Moldova, Republic of - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
9 August 2012
Remarks: The Ministry of Justice provides a Database with Legislation in Romanian and in Russian. http://lex.justice.md/ The Labour Code of the Republic of Moldova has been amended in 2006 and 2011 by several Laws. The original version in Romanian is provided as amended.
Duration
General
All employees have the right to an annual paid holiday, with duration of not less than 28 calendar days without taking into account the non working holidays.
Employees of special sectors (education, health service, public service, etc.) can be granted annual leave of a different duration.
Labour Code Art.113(1)(2)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 28 calendar days
Employees of special sectors (education, health service, public service, etc.) can be granted annual leave of a different duration.
2007: 28 calendar days
Employees of special branches of the national economy (education, health service, public service, etc.) can be granted annual leave of a different duration.
1995: 12 working days after 12 months of employment.
Exceptions
Employees working in harmful conditions, blind workers and workers under the age of 18 are entitled to additional holidays of not less than 4 days. Collective agreements and collective or individual employment contracts can specify other categories of employees to be given additional paid holidays.
Labour Code Art.121(1)(5)
Payment
Amount
For the period of annual paid holiday, a holiday allowance is due to the employee, the size of which cannot be less than the wages, increases and, on occasion, the severance pay for the corresponding period. Replacement of the unused annual paid holidays by monetary indemnification is not admitted, except for the cases of termination of the individual labour contract of the employee who was not using the holiday.
Labour Code Art.117(1), 118(5)
Date of payment
The holiday grant is paid by the employer to the employee not less than three calendar days prior to the beginning of holiday.
Labour Code Art.117(3)
Number and dates
12 days.
January, 1 - New Year Day; January, 7 and 8 - Christmas; March, 8 - International Women’s Day; The first and second days of Easter according to the church calendar; The second Monday after Easter (Remembrance Day); May, 1 - May Day (International Solidarity Day of Workers); May, 9 - Victory Day (to honour the heroes who fought for the independence of the Native land); August, 27 - Day of Republic (Independence Day); August, 31 - the holiday " Limba Nastra "(Our Language); City (town, village) Day, declared and established by the mayoralty of the city, town, village.
Labour Code Art.111(1)
Netherlands - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
1 October 2012
Duration
General
Workers shall be entitled to four times the number of days they work per week. (Four times the agreed weekly working time) To this respect, for a five-day working week the worker is entitled to 20 days of annual leave.
Civil Code, Book 7 Art.634.1 The website of the Government of Netherlands (Rijksoverheid).
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: Four times the agreed weekly working time
2007: Four times the agreed weekly working time
1995: 4 weeks.
Payment
Amount
Workers are entitled to earn their regular wages during the annual leave.
Civil Code, Book 7 Art.639.1
Number and dates
New Year´s Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whitsunday, Whitmonday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Queen`s Day (20 April), Liberation Day (4 May).
Statutory provisions on the payment of public holidays have been not identified. However, it seems that public holidays are to be enjoyed with pay.
The website of the Government of Netherlands (Rijksoverheid).
Norway - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
31 August 2012
Duration
General
Employers shall ensure that employees have 25 working days’ leave in connection with holidays each holiday year. (All days count as working days except Sundays and statutory church or public holidays)
Annual Holidays Act S.5(1)(4)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 25 working days (all days count as working days except Sundays and statutory church or public holidays)
2007: 25 days
1995: 4 weeks and 1 day.
Exceptions
Employees who reach the age of 60 before 1 September in a holiday year shall be given 6 working days’ extra holiday.
Annual Holidays Act S.5(2)
Payment
Amount
An employee is entitled to holiday pay from his employer amounting to 10,2 per cent of the basis of wages paid in the qualifying year.
Annual Holidays Act S.10(1)(2)
Date of payment
Holiday pay is paid on the last normal working day before the holiday.
Annual Holidays Act §11(1)
Number and dates
10 days
Public Holidays Act §2
Remarks: a) New Year's Day (1 January), b) Maundy Thursday (last Thursday before the first Easter Day), c) Good Friday (last Friday before the first Easter Day), d) Easter Sunday and Monday e) Ascension (sixth Thursday after the first Easter Day), f) Whit Sunday and Monday g) Christmas (25 and 26 December)
Portugal - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
21 February 2011.
Remarks: The labour code does not exclude any professional category from its scope. However, it mentions that any professional category regulated by a specific legislation shall follow, in any case, the general rules stated by this act.
Duration
General
Workers are entitled to payed holidays which are mandatory and have a minimum duration of 22 working days.
Labour Code §237(1,3), 238(1)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: Workers are entitled to payed holidays which are mandatory and have a minimum duration of 22 working days.
Number and dates
Workers are entitled to 13 public holidays: 1 January; Mondy Tuesday (optional) Holy Friday, Easter’s Sunday; 25 April; 1 May; Corpus Christi Day; 10 June; 15 August; 5 October; 1 November; 1, 8, and 25 December.
Labour Code §234(1), 235(1)
Romania - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
10 November 2011
Duration
General
The annual leave shall have a minimum length of 20 working days. The actual length of the annual leave shall be laid down in the applicable collective labour agreement, shall be provided for in the individual employment contract and shall be granted in proportion to the activity performed in a calendar year.
Labour Code Art.145
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: Minimum 20 working days.
2007: Minimum 20 working days.
Minimum twenty weekdays, depending on the time worked during the year. Statutory public holidays and free paid days under collective agreements are not to be included in annual leave days.
Workers in hazardous, dangerous or unhealthy conditions, as well as disabled persons and young workers under 18 years' age are entitled to three additional paid leave days.
1995: 18 working days.
Exceptions
Annual holiday can be interrupted, at the employee’s request, for objective reasons.
Labour Code Art.151
Payment
Amount
During the leave, the employee shall receive a leave benefit which may not be lower than the basic pay, the benefits and permanent extra pay due for that period, as provided for in the individual employment contract.
The leave benefit shall be the daily average of the pecuniary rights in the last three months before the month when the leave is taken, multiplied by the number of days of leave.
Labour Code Art.150(1)(2)
Date of payment
The leave benefit shall be paid by the employer at least five working days before taking the leave.
Labour Code Art.150(3)
Number and dates
10 days. The public holidays shall be as follows: a) 1st and 2nd of January; b) the first two Easter days; c) 1st of May; d) 1st of December; e) the first two Christmas days; f) two days for each of the two annual religious holidays, declared as such by legal religious denominations, other than Christian, for the persons belonging to those religious denominations.
Labour Code Art.139
Payment
The legislation does not provide if public holidays are enjoyed with pay or not. However, it seems that public holidays are not paid, unless the worker performs work during these days.
Labour Code Art.145(3), 142
Russian Federation - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
16 April 2009
Duration
General
28 calendar days (i.e. 20 working days for a 5-day workweek)
Labour Code §115
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
2009: 28 calendar days (i.e. 20 working days for a 5-day workweek)
2007: 28 days
1995: 24 working days.
Exceptions
Force Majeure. Additional paid leave is granted to employees involved in work with harmful or dangerous labour conditions, to employees involved in work of a specific character, to employees having irregular working hours and to employees working in the Far North regions and territories equated with them. Leave exceeding 28 days may be replaced by payment upon the employee’s written request. However, it is not permitted to replace payment for leave for pregnant women, employees under the age of 18 years, and workers involved in arduous work or work with harmful or dangerous working conditions.
Labour Code §113,116-119, 126
Payment
Amount
Average earnings.
Labour Code §114
Number and dates
12 days.
Labour Code §112
Remarks: New Year (1-5 January); Christmas (7 January); Day of the Defendant of Motherland (23 February); International Women's Day (8 March); Spring and Labour Holiday (1 May); Victory Day (9 May); Day of Russia (12 June); National Unity Day (4 November).
Payment
Daily working time is to be reduced by one hour the day preceding a public holiday. If it is impossible to take leave due to continuous work, the employee shall be compensated with either additional leave, or by agreement, receive overtime payment.
Labour Code §95
San Marino - Working time - 2011
LAST UPDATE
22 November 2011
Duration
All workers shall be entitled to annual leave with pay, varying from 1 to more than 15 years’ service from 10 to 20 days a year for wage earners and from 1 to more than 12 years’ service from 10 to 12 days a year for salaried employees and intermediary staff.
Act No.7 respecting the protection of labour and of workers Art.19 and Schedule B
Number and dates
Public holidays are religious, civil and natinal holidays; Religious: 1st of January: Maria Santissima Madre de Dio; 6 January: Epifania del Signore; Santissimo Corpo e Sangue di Cristo (Thrusday after the Sunday of the SS Trinitá Santissimo); 15 August: Assunzione della Beata Vergine Maria; 1st of November: Tutti i Santi; the Second of November: Commemorazione dei defunti; 8 December: Immacolata Concezione della Beata Vergine Maria; 25 December: Natale del Signore. Civil: Easter Monday; the 26th of December. Civil and National: The 25th of March: Arengo; the 1st of April and the 1st of October: Ingresso dei Capitani Reggenti;the 1st May: Festa del lavoro; the 28th July: Caduta del Fascismo.
Law No.152 Art.1
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