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Paternal and Parental Holiday for Employees
New Legislation Enacted
Author: Zoltán Csernus, Attorney-at-Law – VJT & Partners Law Firm
The paternal holiday the father employees were already entitled to in case of a birth of a child is extended from five working days to 10 working days. The father is also entitled to such paternal holiday if he adopts a child. Such holiday can be required by the employee within two months as from the date of birth or the date when the authority’s decision on adoption became final and enforceable. For the first five working days, the employee is entitled to full salary, while for the second five working days the employee is entitled to 40% of his salary.
The paternal holiday is to be granted in line with the employee’s request, but maximum in two parts. The employees (both the mother and the father) are also entitled to another new type of paid holiday until their child is three years old, namely the parental holiday, which is 44 working days long and is paid with only 10% of the salary, which amount is decreased with the amounts of other types of state child benefits paid to the employee. The employee has to be employed by the employer for at least one year to be entitled to the parental holiday. The paternal holiday has no such condition.
New Grounds for Unilateral Change of Working Conditions by the Parent Employees
New Legislation Enacted
Author: Zoltán Csernus, Attorney-at-Law – VJT & Partners Law Firm
The employee having a child of maximum eight years old is entitled to request a) change of the place of work, b) change of the working time schedule, c) remote working (home office working), or d) part-time working. The employee has to justify such request in writing and designate the commencement date of the change. The employer has to answer in writing within 15 days and if the request is refused, the refusal has to be justified clearly. If the request is unanswered or refused unlawfully, the employee can challenge it at the court, and if the employer cannot prove the reality of the cause referred to as the ground of refusal, the court must approve the employee’s request of change of working conditions.