Childcare. Two days off also for foreigners

Each employee raising a child aged 14 or younger is entitled to two days off per year to take care of the child, writes the portal prawo.pl. Experts interviewed by the website point out that foreigners are also entitled to such days off.

They emphasize that it does not matter whether the child resides in Poland or outside EU borders. Child care is regulated by Article 188 of the Labour Code.

The provision of Article 188 of the Labour Code is very general, and does not even require specifying the child's date of birth - says Dagmara Aniołek, HR & Payroll Senior Specialist at RSM Poland. - Therefore, there is a doubt whether the employer may require the employee to provide the child's date of birth in order to verify the entitlement," she notes.

It is up to the employee to decide how to use the exemption in a given calendar year. As Dagmara Aniołek, quoted by the Prawo.pl portal, points out, the regulations do not specify whether an employer may deny an employee the right to use the exemption and determine whether the exemption is used in accordance with its purpose.

The practice so far shows that the employer has no right to refuse the employee, moreover, the employee is not obliged to motivate his/her request - she emphasizes.

(money.pl)