Exemptions from work are breaks in the performance of work, commonly referred to as special leave.

These exemptions are granted due to specific circumstances:

• for dealing with personal and family matters,
• for performing social or civic duties.

More specifically, this leave is granted, for example:

• for the time necessary to appear at the request of a government or local authority, a court, a public prosecutor’s office, the police or an authority conducting misdemeanour proceedings,
• for an employee who is a blood donor for the time specified by the blood donation centre in order to donate blood,
• in the event of the employee’s wedding or birth of their child, or death and funeral of the employee’s spouse or child, father, mother, stepfather or stepmother, in the amount of 2 days,
• in the event of a wedding of the employee’s child or death and funeral of their sister, brother, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandmother, grandfather, as well as another dependant or person under their direct care, in the amount of 1 day,
• for an employee bringing up at least one child up to 14 years of age, in the amount of 16 hours or 2 days.