COMPLEMENTARY PARENTAL LEAVE

» Concept

Justified absence from work of working parents or adopters for assistance to a son/daughter or adopted under the age of six years

» Scope

Working parents or adopters

» Modes

» Extended parental leave, for three months

» Part-time work during 12months, with a normal work period equal to half of the full time

» Interleaved periods of extended parental leave and of part-time work in which the total duration of absence and reduction of the work time is equal to normal work periods of three months

» Interpolated absences from work, with equal duration to normal work periods of three months, when provided for in collective labour regulation instrument

Note

A complementary parental leave may take place, in the form of interpolated absence from work, with equal duration to normal work periods of three months, when provided for in collective labour regulation instrument

» Regime

» The father or mother may enjoy any of the forms in a consecutive way or up to three interpolated periods, however none of the progenitors may cumulate the right of the other

» Both progenitors may enjoy simultaneously the leave, however if they were at the service of the same public employer, this one may postpone the leave of one of them with justification, submitted in writing based on essential demands of functioning of the service

» During the leave period the public employee shall not fulfil an activity incompatible with the purpose of the leave, namely, subordinate work or continuous provision of services outside his/her residence

» Formalities

» Information addressed in writing to the employer with 30 days in advance with regard to the commencement of the leave indicating the intended mode and of the commencement and term of each period

» Communication on the termination of the situation that gave rise to the respective leave within the time limit of five days

» Effects

» Loss of pay

» It is suspended due to public employee’s sickness

» It shall not be suspended owing to public employer’s convenience

» Does not affect the right of the public employee to accede to periodical information issued by the employer for the set of public employees

» Ends with termination of the situation that led to the respective leave

» At the term of the leave the public employee is entitled to resume activity