Leave
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.
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