Essay On Maternity Leave

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All the EU Member States and Norway have a statutory minimum period of paid annual leave. The length of the leave depends on the type of occupation performed, years of service or the sector of economic activity and, in many cases, is part of collective agreements.
In this section we will concentrate on the paid leave that the employees are entitled to have for both countries.

Belgium
In Belgium employees can have 20 days of paid leave each year in case if the employee is working five days a week. They can have 24 days of paid leave in case if the employee is working six days per week.

Maternity leave:
An employee who is about to deliver is entitled to 15 weeks of maternity leave, or in 17 weeks in case of multiple births. In this case, it can be extended to 19 weeks. The period is divided into two leaves:
· Prenatal leave: 6 weeks (8 weeks in case of multiple births) before the expected date of delivery. The leave must be taken at latest 7 days before the expected date of delivery. In such case it is possible to extend the postnatal leave by adding the days/ weeks which were not taken during the prenatal leave.
· Postnatal leave: 9 mandatory weeks after the delivery. …show more content…

The Polish economics are still very young in comparison to the Belgian one. It is worth mentioning that Poland regained its freedom only 25 years ago and its economics started to be built from scratch. The Poles were willing to be self-employed at that time and set up new businesses in order to boost the economy. Next, the membership of European Union began a very dynamic progress and attracted foreign investors. Above reasons forced the job market to find new flexibles form of employment contracts. Thus, the great increase of civil law contracts on the

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