Obstacles to work

An employer will excuse the absence from work of an employee for periods of:

• the employee’s temporary incapacity to work due to disease or injury;
• maternity leave and parental leave;
• quarantine;
• attending to a sick family member.

The employer will grant an employee time off from work for the following reasons:

• examination or treatment of an employee in a medical facility, at most for 7 days per calendar year;
• the birth of the employee’s child; time off from work with wage compensation is provided for the time necessary to transport the mother of the child to a medical facility and back;
• accompanying a family member to a medical facility for examination or treatment, at most for 7 days per calendar year;
• 2 days upon the death of a spouse or child, and an additional day for attending the funeral of the deceased;
• 1 day to attend the funeral: of a parent or sibling of the employee, parent or sibling of the employee’s spouse, and the spouse of the employee’s sibling, and an additional day if the employee is arranging the funeral of the deceased;
• 1 day to attend the funeral: of the employee’s grandparent or grandchild, or grandparent of the employee’s spouse, or other person who lived with the employee at the time of death in the household, and an additional day if the employee is arranging the funeral of the deceased.

Family member

A family member is a spouse, a natural child, a child entrusted to an employee for alternative care based on a court ruling, an employee’s parent, employee’s sibling, spouse of an employee’s sibling, parent-in-law, spouse’s sibling, employee’s grandparent, spouse’s grandparent, employee’s grandchild and other persons living in the household with the employee.

Explanatory laws:

• Act No 311/2001, the Labour Code