Annual Leaves
An employee is entitled to a minimum annual paid leave of 21 days every one full year of service and proportionally if his period of service is less than one year. This annual leave is increased to one month after the employee has worked for 10 consecutive years or is over 50 years old. In addition, every employee is entitled to full pay for official holidays designated by the Ministry of Manpower and Immigration, not to exceed 13 days a year.
If employees are required to work during official holidays, the employees are entitled to overtime (paid at twice their normal rate). The weekly days off and the official holidays shall not be counted as part of the annual leaves.
Accidental Leave
Accidental leave is the leave taken by an employee, as a result of unexpected circumstances, in which he has no choice except desisting from work, after that he should inform the employer with the reasons of desisting.
Article No. 51 of the Labor Law states that desisting from work with accidental reason should not exceed six days per year and this leave will be counted from the annual leave of the employee.
Sick Leave
The Labor Law provides that an employee whose sickness is established and determined by the concerned medical responsible is entitled up to six months of paid sick leave annually at between 75% and A worker shall be entitled to benefit from his accumulated annual leaves in addition to leaves of sickness and he shall also have the right to request his leaves of sickness to be transferred to the annual leave balance.
An employer shall not terminate the employee's service due to sickness unless the employee has utilized the above-mentioned period.
Official Leaves (Public Holidays)
According to ministerial decree No. 63/1982 official leaves, which are fully paid, are as follows:
- The 1st day of Moharam (Islamic new year)
- The 12th day of Rabie the first (Prophet Mohamed's birthday)
- The 1st and 2nd days of Shawal (1st Bairum)
- The 9th, 10th, and 11th days of Zoelhega (2nd Bairum)
- The seventh day of January (Eastern Christmas)
- Spring day (Sham El Nessim)
- The 25th of April (Sinai Liberation Day)
- The 1st of May (Labor Day)
- The 23rd of July (Revolution Day)
- The 6th of October (Armed Forces Day)
Performing Pilgrimage or Visiting Jerusalem
Regarding religious respects, Article No. 53 of the new Labor Law stated that an employee who has spent five consecutive years in the service have the right to full paid leave for a period not exceeding one month for performing pilgrimage or to visit Jerusalem and such a 100% of the employee's normal wa leave shall be enjoyed only once during the period of service.
Maternity and Child Care Leave
A female having spent 10 months in the service of an employer shall be entitled to a maternity leave of 90 days with full wage payment including the period preceding giving birth. The female employee is not entitled to this maternity leave for more than twice during her working period.
During the 24 months following the date of child birth, she has the right to one hour daily rest for breast-feeding her child.
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