Each country has its own policy regarding the provision of paid annual leave to employees. Many states have 25 days of vacation, and a country near Romania has 28 vacation days per year.

Estonia – 28 days of vacation

The vacation policy in Estonia is one of the most generous in Europe, the standard working schedule in Estonia is eight hours a day, five days a week. The duration of a shift cannot exceed 12 hours.

Overtime work is allowed by agreement with the employer. The duration of working hours, including overtime, cannot exceed an average of 48 hours per week for more than 4 months.

The duration of annual leave is 28 days. It is even longer in the case of some professions, such as civil servants and local government officials, teachers, academic or research staff.

Public and public holidays are not included in the calculation of vacation time. An employee may, at his request, be granted leave without pay for a period to be determined by agreement of the parties.

In case of illness, an employee may be granted paid sick leave of up to 182 calendar days (no more than 250 days per year). The gross salary during this period is 70% of the average salary in recent years. The employer pays the salary from the 4th to the 8th day of illness, and the state from the 9th day.

(investinestonia.com)

Denmark – five weeks of paid vacation per year.

As an employee in Denmark, you are entitled to five weeks of paid holiday per year. When you are with the company for a month, you are entitled to 2.08 days of rest. This is equivalent to the five weeks of paid leave (25 days) that full-time employees are entitled to each year.

Even if you do not work for a whole month, the right to paid vacation is accrued in proportion to the number of days worked. So, if you worked two weeks, you would be entitled to 1.04 days of vacation. Rounded, one-day.

The employer is obliged to provide at least three weeks of continuous leave from the beginning of May to the end of September. This obligation applies to the condition that employees submit applications for leave at least three months before the day it is scheduled to start.

During the remaining months of the year, employees are allowed to take paid leave at any time with one month’s notice.

The Danish Leave Act was passed almost 100 years ago (April 13, 1938) and protects an employee’s right to paid leave.

(www.workindenmark.dk/,https://inhuntworld.com/)

Finland – 30 days of vacation per year

In a Finnish employment relationship, you receive holiday credits depending on the duration and nature of the employment contract. The standard provides for giving employees 30 days of vacation per year. Usually people spend four weeks (24 days off) in the summer and one week (6 days off) in the winter.

Midsummer is a very important vacation time when everyone wants to go on vacation. In fact, more than a third of the Finnish workforce is on vacation in July.

Finns prefer to go on holiday to southern Europe. In recent years, Greece has been the most popular destination, followed by Turkey, Spain, Italy and Croatia.

(www.finnwards.com/)

Luxembourg – free 25 working days per year

Luxembourg is one of the European countries with the most paid holidays. The duration of annual leave is established by law at least 25 working days per year. In addition, the collective or individual agreement between the employer and the employee may provide for additional vacation days.

Additional leave is granted to certain categories of employees: 6 working days per year for war invalids, injured at work and disabled and 3 working days per year for mining engineers.

An employee or student who has not been able to take a continuous rest period of 44 hours per week shall be granted one additional day of leave for each period of 8 weeks, whether consecutive or not.

Any employee has the right to annual paid leave, regardless of the work schedule (part-time, full-time, etc.) and the type of employment contract (term or permanent). For an employee who works part-time (including part-time parental leave), annual leave is calculated in proportion to his weekly work schedule. To be eligible, you must first work continuously for 3 months with the same employer.

During the vacation, it is forbidden to engage in paid activities. If you do not comply with this condition, you will lose your leave. You cannot give up the leave you are entitled to, even in exchange for compensation, unless the employment relationship is terminated

https://www.ing.lu/content/siteing/en/Individuals/my-money/categories/lifestyle/paid-vacation-in-luxembourg–what-you-need-to-know.html

Norway – Four weeks and one day of paid vacation each year

The Holiday Act (Ferieloven), supplemented by collective agreements, provides the general basis for annual leave in Norway. Every employee is entitled to four weeks and one day of paid vacation each calendar year. If the company also has a collective agreement, five weeks of vacation per year.

Employees over the age of 60 are entitled to an additional week of vacation.

Saturday is considered a working day. Vacation pay is paid taking into account the person’s income for the previous calendar year.

Sick employees may not work for three consecutive calendar days without a medical certificate.

(https://www.nho.no/en/english/articles/basic-labour-law/, /www.tekna.no)

France – 30 working days of annual leave

A full-time employee is granted a paid vacation lasting 2.5 working days per month. This is 30 working days (that is, 5 weeks of 6 working days, including Saturday) for a full year of work.

This is the legal minimum number for a full-time employee. Weekends and holidays are not considered holidays.

You may find yourself in a situation where the number of vacation days you have accrued is not a whole number. For example, if you worked for 7 months, this means 17.5 days of paid vacation. In this case, the number of days is rounded up to the next whole number. In our example, 17.5 actually becomes 18 days.

Leave must be agreed with the employer, who has the right to refuse (if the company has a period of intensive activity or if it is related to a risk for the company’s activity, etc.). Leave must be approved at least one month before it starts, and no changes can be made during that one-month period.

There are certain restrictions on the use of vacation days. For example, it is mandatory to use at least 12 days of vacation from May 1 to October 31. The remaining days can be used throughout the year however you like (or not at all if you prefer).

Under certain conditions and in certain industries, the sectoral agreement may specify the periods of the year when employees may or may not take vacation. (exploreintown.com/)

Poland – employees who have worked for more than ten years are entitled to 26 days of paid vacation per year

All employees are entitled to annual paid leave. The duration of vacation is determined based on the employee’s years of service. Employees with less than ten years of service are entitled to 20 days of paid leave per year, and employees with more than ten years of service are entitled to 26 days of paid leave per year.

Employees can also use training time as seniority when calculating vacation pay. For example, an employee who has a higher education gets the equivalent of eight years of work.

Employees can carry over unused vacation days to the following year. Employees must use vacation days by September 30 of the following year or they will be forfeited.

(squad.io)