{"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":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">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 &#8211; moms that have definitely better maternity leave conditions than moms in USA&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/11\/images-9.jpeg\" aria-label=\"Images 9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3921\"  alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"208\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/11\/images-9.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">European labour law legislations provide for different schemes of maternity leave (<strong>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<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In Poland the duration of maternity leave depends on the number of children born at one time and equals:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">20 weeks when one child is born,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">31 weeks when twins (<strong>bli\u017ani\u0119ta, dwojaczki<\/strong>) are born,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">33 weeks when triplets (<strong>trojaczki<\/strong>) are born,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">35 weeks when quadruplets (<strong>czworaczki<\/strong>) are born,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">37 weeks when five or more children are born at one time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At least 2 weeks of maternity leave may be used before birth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">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<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A lot of my friends took few months off during pregnancy&#8230;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 (<strong>wynagrodzenie, pensja<\/strong>)&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure exactly how it works though&#8230;This is what I found online:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;<em>Payment and funding<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\uf0b7 Hundred per cent of average earnings for 12 months before birth, with no ceiling on payments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Well, I wish maternity leave in the States would look different&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here is some more info which will help you to compare maternity leave in different countries:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parental_leave<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Do nast<\/strong><strong>\u0119pnego razu&#8230; <\/strong>(Till next time&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; moms that have definitely better maternity leave conditions than moms in USA&#8230; European labour law legislations provide for&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/maternity-leave-in-poland\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}