What is included in the annual leave?

All employees, including those working on a part-time basis, are provided with annual leave for rest and restoration of working capacity, with preservation of the place of work (position) and average salary. Employees are provided with annual leave for a period of not less than 15 working days and not more than 48 working days.
Annual labor leave may consist of major, extended, and additional holidays. The minimum length of annual major holidays is 15 days.
Employees are granted annual extended basic leave, taking into account their age and health status:
persons under the age of 18 - 30 calendar days;
working persons with disabilities of groups I and II have 30 calendar days.
• Extended leave is established for certain categories of employees in accordance with the legislation, taking into account the specifics and characteristics of their work duties and other circumstances.
Annual additional holidays:
• employees employed in jobs with unfavorable and specific working conditions (whose health is affected by physical, chemical, biological and other harmful factors of production in the labor process),
employees performing work in difficult and unfavorable natural and climatic conditions and other employees provided for by labor legislation, labor contract.

What is the length of the annual holidays?

Many organizations make mistakes when calculating annual leave. However, the length of holidays, regardless of the type of working day (5 or 6 days), is calculated in calendar days for a 6-day working week. Holiday days that fall within the holiday period and are considered holiday (non-working) days are not taken into account when determining the duration of holidays.
The total length of annual leave is calculated in the form of main vacation or extended vacation + additional vacation.
At the same time, according to presidential decrees on the establishment of annual additional days off, issued for each year, the number of additional days off provided for in the decree will be deducted from the total number of annual holidays. In this case, the number of additional days of rest for the corresponding employee per year is deducted from the annual leave.
How are annual leave allowances calculated in proportion to the amount of time worked?
When calculating the duration of vacations proportionally to the amount of time worked, their duration is determined by dividing the amount of each full leave by 12 and then multiplying it by the number of fully worked months. In this case, days equal to or exceeding 15 calendar days are rounded to one month, and less than 15 calendar days are excluded.

Annual basic leave is granted after 6 months for the first working year
A working year, unlike a calendar year, is calculated from the date of commencement of work under an employment contract.
Annual basic leave for the second and subsequent working years is granted before the beginning of the calendar year at any time of the working year in accordance with the schedule of holidays approved by the employer in agreement with the trade union committee or other representative body of employees.
The employee can change the time in the vacation schedule by agreement with the employer. The employee must be notified at least 15 days before the start of the leave. Leave must be granted before the end of the working year.

The procedure for dividing annual holidays into parts and paying them

At the request of the employee, on the basis of his written application, part of the leave can be divided into parts in an amount not less than 12 working days. In exceptional cases where, due to reasons of a production nature, it is impossible to provide full leave in the current year, with the consent of the employee, the part of the leave exceeding twelve working days may be transferred to the next working year, which must be used in the same year.
The employee is paid for the period of annual leave in an amount not less than the average salary. Payment for leave shall be made no later than the last working day preceding the start of leave.
Teachers of schools, higher and secondary specialized, vocational educational institutions, institutes and courses for advanced training, retraining and retraining of personnel are given annual leave in the first working year, regardless of the time of their entry to work in this educational institution, in full during the period of paid summer leave in proportion to the actual working time.