{"id":3919,"date":"2012-11-09T02:48:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2012-11-10T03:19:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T03:19:23","slug":"maternity-leave-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/maternity-leave-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternity leave in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have 2 little girls and friends with little kids. They always ask me about maternity leave in Poland. My kids were born in USA, but I gathered some information about it from my Polish friends – moms that have definitely better maternity leave conditions than moms in USA…\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

European labour law legislations provide for different schemes of maternity leave (urlop macierzy\u0144ski<\/strong>) for young mothers. Some are longer, some are shorter, there are also discrepancies as far as social benefits during that are concerned.<\/p>\n

In Poland the duration of maternity leave depends on the number of children born at one time and equals:<\/p>\n

20 weeks when one child is born,<\/p>\n

31 weeks when twins (bli\u017ani\u0119ta, dwojaczki<\/strong>) are born,<\/p>\n

33 weeks when triplets (trojaczki<\/strong>) are born,<\/p>\n

35 weeks when quadruplets (czworaczki<\/strong>) are born,<\/p>\n

37 weeks when five or more children are born at one time.<\/p>\n

At least 2 weeks of maternity leave may be used before birth.<\/p>\n

On top of that, after the basic leave entitlement has been used up, a young mother is entitled to additional maternity leave of 4 weeks (in case of birth of one child) or 6 weeks (in case of birth of more than one child). These additional entitlements will be increased to 6 and 8 weeks respectively, beginning January 2014.<\/p>\n

A lot of my friends took few months off during pregnancy…they just had to have a note from their doctor that basically said they needed a lot of rest. They were still getting paid 100% their salary (wynagrodzenie, pensja<\/strong>)…I’m not sure exactly how it works though…This is what I found online:<\/p>\n

“Payment and funding<\/em><\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Hundred per cent of average earnings for 12 months before birth, with no ceiling on payments.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Funded from the Social Insurance Fund, financed by contributions by employees and self-employed workers (but not employers), with some additional finance from the State to cover pension contributions.”<\/p>\n

Well, I wish maternity leave in the States would look different…<\/p>\n

Here is some more info which will help you to compare maternity leave in different countries:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parental_leave<\/p>\n

Do nast<\/strong>\u0119pnego razu… <\/strong>(Till next time…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have 2 little girls and friends with little kids. They always ask me about maternity leave in Poland. My kids were born in USA, but I gathered some information about it from my Polish friends – moms that have definitely better maternity leave conditions than moms in USA… European labour law legislations provide for…<\/p>\n

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