Special leave - spéciaux

Employees and apprentices

• 8 weeks of antenatal leave
• 12 weeks of postnatal leave

People adopting one child or more that has not reached the age of 12 years old

12 weeks

• Parents of one child or more under 6 years old
  
  
• Parents of one adopted child or more under 12 years old

• 4 or 6 months for full-time leave (8 or 12 months for part-time leave)
  
  
• split parental leave: a reduction in the number of working hours at a rate of one day of work per week (or 20% of the working hours) over a 20-month period
  
  
• parental leave, split over four one-month periods for a maximum period of 20 months

• Parents of one child or more under 18 years old
  
  
• For children who receive special disability benefits, the duration of leave for family reasons is doubled for each age range

• 12 days per child aged between 0 and up to 4 years old
  
  
• 18 days per child aged between 4 years old and up to the day before their 13th birthday
  
  
• 5 days per child from their 13th birthday up to 18 years old, but only in the event that the child is admitted to hospital
  
  
• a maximum of 52 weeks in any 104-week period in the event that the child has an extremely severe illness

• People serving a term of office as mayor, alderman, or communal councillor
  
  
• People serving a term of office as deputy (a member of parliament)

•  between 2 and 30 hours per week
  
  
• 20 hours (maximum)

Employees

60 days, with a maximum of 20 days in any 2-year period

• Elite athletes, support staff, judges and referees,
  
  
• Technical and administrative managers

• 12 days per year and per beneficiary
  
  
• For managers: 25 days per year and per body to which they are affiliated

Experts and representatives of non-government organisations that are still carrying out another professional activity

6 days per year

Volunteers working in the Fire and Rescue Services

42 days, with a maximum of 7 days per year

Employees

80 days, with a maximum of 20 days in any two-year period

Employees dismissed with notice

6 days maximum

An employee who is carrying out a mandate as a member of a professional chamber or a social security body or institution, as an assessor with the Labour Tribunal, or as an assessor-insured or an assessor-employer for the Arbitration Tribunal/Higher Social Security Tribunal

4 hours per meeting or audience

Salariés lié depuis au moins 6 mois par un contrat à un employeur établi au Luxembourg.
Personne exerçant une activité professionnelle ou libérale sur le territoire luxembourgeois depuis au moins 6 mois

Maximum 200 hours over the course of the professional career

An employee whose parent (1st degree relative in a direct ascendant/descendant line or 2nd degree relative in a collateral line), spouse or partner is in the terminal phase of a severe illness, can request family hospice leave

5 days per case and per year