Leave of absence without retention of work remuneration

Nov 04, 2009
By Annija Melko [Kronbergs & Cukste]

Section 149 of the Labor Law sets out the right of an employee to annual paid vacation, which technically cannot be shorter than four calendar weeks, not including holidays. Under the law, annual paid vacation is to be set for specific dates in consultation with the employee, but must include an undivided two week period. In practice, in many workplaces there is a lot of flexibility on vacation date setting, which includes not abiding by the two week unbroken period requirement. Such flexibility ...

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