The employer is bound by law to grant every employee a minimum total of 32 hours with pay per year as time off for urgent family reasons. These hours are to be deducted from the employee’s annual vacation leave and sick leave entitlement.
Out of the 32 hours urgent family leave to which a full-time employee is entitled to, the first 16 hours taken as urgent family leave are deducted from the annual vacation leave entitlement of the employee. The second 16 hours taken as urgent family leave are deducted from the annual paid sick leave entitlement of the employee. Such urgent leave has to be related to cases of sickness or accident to members of the immediate family of the employee.