Common use of Care Leave Clause in Contracts

Care Leave. The employer will grant the employee care leave without loss of income in the event that the partner, a parent or a child, including the employee’s or the employee’s partner’s parents-in-law, stepparents or stepchildren or xxxxxx children, fall ill and require nursing, to a maximum per year of two times the working hours per week. If a medical certificate, to be submitted to the employer, should indicate that the continuous presence of the employee with the person who has fallen ill is required for a longer period of time, this period may be extended. Article J-12 Emergency leave Pursuant to article 4:1 Work and Care Act (Wet Arbeid en Zorg (WAZO) the employee is entitled to emergency leave, with or without loss of income, in the circumstances referred to in that article. Article J-13 Adoption leave 1. Leave without loss of income pursuant to the Work and Care Act (Wet Arbeid en Zorg (WAZO)) is granted for a maximum of 6 weeks in the event that a child is adopted by the employee. Throughout the period of leave the salary will be paid in full. The leave will start 4 weeks before the first day the child is actually adopted into the family; the leave does not have to be taken consecutively, however, it has to be taken within a period of 26 weeks. The employee submits a document to the employer which shows that the child has been or will be adopted into the family. 2. The employee may request the employer to spread the leave over a period of 26 weeks. The employer, in principle, grants the request to spread the leave unless there are compelling reasons in the context of a business interest or an interest of the service for not doing so. 3. If, as a result of an adoption request, two or more children are actually adopted into the family, the entitlement to leave only arises for one of these children. 4. During the leave pursuant to the Work and Care Act (Wet Arbeid en Zorg (WAZO)), the employee is entitled to a benefit supplied by the Employee Insurance Agency (Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen (UWV)), to be applied for by the employer. The employer supplements this benefit up to 100% of the employee’s salary.