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Parental leave

Employees-parents of a child are entitled to parental leave to care for a child, and, in principle, this leave amounts to 41 or 43 weeks.

The employer shall allow the employee to work in the previous position after the end of the parental leave, or, if this is not possible, in a position equivalent to that occupied before the beginning of the leave, on terms no less favourable than those that would have applied if the employee had not taken the leave.

Translated with the support of the European Labour Authority

Legal basis

Act of 26 June 1974 – Labour Code (Journal of Laws [Dziennik Ustaw] of 2023, item 1465);

Regulation of the Minister for Family, Labour and Social Policy of 8 December 2015 on requests concerning employees’ rights related to parenthood and documents to be enclosed with such requests (Journal of Laws [Dz.U.] of 2015, item 2243, as amended);

Act of 25 June 1999 on social-insurance financial benefits in the event of sickness or maternity (Journal of Laws [Dz.U.] of 2022, item 1732, as amended). 

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