Leave Entitlements

Based on the legal requirements and company agreements, different kind of rules must be considered for setting up your maternity, paternity and adoption absences.

Note: Based on information (Multiple births, dependent children) collected when entering an absence, a validation is performed to check if the actual or projected start /end dates of the absence are consistent with the birth date.

Maternity

This table indicates the legally prescribed entitlements depending on the type of event and on the conditions:

MATERNITY	SCENARIO	TOTAL DURATION IN WEEKS	ANTE NATAL LEAVE	POST NATAL LEAVE
Single birth	The employee has less than three dependents	16	6	10
	The employee has three or more dependents	26	8	18
Multiple births	Birth of twins	34	12	22
	Birth of triplets	46	24	22

Based on information (Multiple births, dependent children ...) collected when entering an absence, a validation is performed to check if the actual or projected start /end dates of the absence are consistent with the birth date. If information is not consistent, messages are generated:

• The maternity leave start date can't be less than 2 weeks before the expected or actual date of childbirth. Do you want to continue?
• The Total duration leave exceeds the entitlement. Do you want to continue?
• The maternity leave end date can't be less than 6 weeks after the expected or actual date of childbirth. Do you want to continue?

Before the actual child birth is known, the maternity leave is determined starting from the expected delivery date.

Upon childbirth, if the delivery date is before the expected date, the ante-natal leave is reduced and Post Natal increased for the same length. The total length does not change.

If the delivery date is after the expected date, the antenatal leave will be increased, and the postnatal leave will remain the same. The total length will be longer.

High premature: If the actual birth date is more than 6 weeks before the expected child date, the total maternity leave increases by the number of days between the actual child birth and the start date of the maternity leave.

ANTE-NATAL PATHOLOGICAL LEAVE	TOTAL DURATION IN WEEKS
For pathological reasons	2
Post-Natal Pathological Leave	Total duration in weeks
For pathological reasons	4

The post-natal pathological leave is paid at IJSS Sickness rate. It will be managed with the sickness absence type.

The ante-natal Pathological is paid at IJSS Maternity rate and can be split. An additional absence type (Additional Maternity Leave) is also needed.

Paternity

PATERNITY	TOTAL DURATION IN CALENDAR DAYS
Single birth	25
Multiple births	32

The paternity leave can be split in 3 periods. If information is not consistent, messages are generated:

• The duration of Paternity absence cannot be less than 4 days.
• The duration of Linked Paternity absence cannot be less than 5 days.
• You can't add more than 2 linked absence periods.

Adoption

TYPE OF ADOPTION	SCENARIO	TOTAL DURATION IN WEEKS	PARTNER ADOPTION IN CALENDAR DAYS
Single adoption	The employee has less than 2 dependent children	10	25
	The employee has 2 or more dependent children	18
Multiple adoption	N/A	22	32

If information is not consistent, messages are generated:

• You need to enter an adoption start date that's on or before the placement date.
• You can't add more than one linked absence period.
• The absence duration must be 25 days or greater. (32 days or greater in case of multiple adoptions)
• The adoption leave can't start more than 7 days before the actual or expected placement date of the child.