Sweden

Legal minimum regulations: 25 days /year

Collective agreement regulations: 25 days /year

Germany

Legal minimum regulations: 24 days per year (based on 6-days week)

Collective agreement regulations: It differs from the different agreements. Up to 30 days (based on 5-days week)

Lithuania

Legal minimum regulations: 28 days + for years of service

Poland

Legal minimum regulations: After a year: 16 days, after 5 years: 20 days, after 10 years: 26 (including an uninterrupted 14-day holiday period each year)

Latvia

Annual Paid Leave

(1) Every employee has the right to annual paid leave. Such leave may not be less than four calendar weeks, not counting holidays. Persons under 18 years of age shall be granted annual paid leave of one month.

(2) By agreement of an employee and the employer, annual paid leave in the current year may be granted in parts, nevertheless one part of the leave in the current year shall not be less than two uninterrupted calendar weeks.

(3) In exceptional cases when the granting in the current year of the full annual paid leave to an employee may adversely affect the normal course of activities in the undertaking, it is permitted with the written consent of the employee to transfer part of the leave to the subsequent year. In such case, the part of the leave in the current year shall not be less than two consecutive calendar weeks. The part of the transferred leave shall as far as possible be added to the leave of the next year. Part of the leave may be transferred only to the subsequent year.

Supplementary Leave

(1) Annual paid supplementary leave shall be granted to:

1) employees who have three or more children under the age of 16 years or a disabled child – three days; and

2) employees exposed to special risk – at least three working days.

(2) A collective agreement or an employment contract may determine other cases (night work, shift work, long-term work, etc.) where an employee shall be granted annual paid supplementary leave.

Except above-stated, the law provides also following kinds of holidays :

Leave without Retention of Work Remuneration

Prenatal and Maternity Leave

Leave to Father of a Child, Adopters and Other Persons

Parental Leave

Study Leave