Time Off

Vacation is an important part of your work life and the idea behind ​​the regulatory system regarding vacation is to guarantee that employees have the opportunity to rest and recover. As an employee at our Mannheim office you are entitled to 25 days of vacation per year (20 of those by law when working 5 days a week, 5 additional vacation days are granted by kursfinder GmbH). During the vacation period, employees are entitled to full remuneration.

The full vacation entitlement starts after an you have been on the job for six months. If you are terminated before these six months have passed or within the first half of a calendar year, the you will only be entitled to 1/12 of the annual vacation entitlement for each month of the employment relationship. In the event of termination after the first six months and within the second half of the calendar year, you will be entitled to the full annual vacation.

In general, you must take your annual holidays/vacation during the calendar year. Otherwise, it is forfeited. However, unused holiday can be carried forward until the 31st of March of the next calendar year if you were unable to take the holiday due to operational or personal reasons. The 5 additional vacation days granted by kursfinder GmbH may be carried forward until the next calendar year. If any holiday entitlement still remains at the end of the employment, employees can claim financial compensation for the days not taken.

You request all vacation in BambooHR.

If you get sick, you will have full pay for up to six weeks when you have been employed for four weeks pre-illness. If the illness continues for more than 2 days then proof of incapacity is required, outlining the incapacity itself and its duration.

After six week: After 6 weeks, the ‘Krankengeld’ (health insurance fund) pays sickness and benefits at 70% of the normal salary. Then you can receive sickness benefits for a maximum of 78 weeks (within a three year period) for any incapacity caused by the same illness or disability, calculated as of the first day of sickness.

You report all sick leave in BambooHR.

Are you expecting? Exiting!

If you are having a baby in Germany you may qualify for Mutterschaftsgeld or Maternity Allowance. Mutterschaftsgeld is a financial service paid by the Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, the German State Health Insurance. It is financial support provided to pregnant women. You as a female employee are entitled to paid maternity leave, which is the time period 6 weeks before and 8 weeks after giving birth. The maternity leave after the birth has been extended to 12 weeks in case of multiple births, premature births and disabled children.

After birth of a child, both - male and female - employees are entitled to a maximum of three years’ parental leave per child. You have a statutory right to work part-time (between 15 and 30 hours per week) during parental leave unless urgent business reasons prevent such part time work. After expiry of the parental leave, you return to your previous position.

If you are about to report Mother´s leave in BambooHR you have to choose the type "Parental Leave".

After birth of a child, both - male and female - employees are entitled to a maximum of three years’ parental leave per child. You have a statutory right to work part-time (between 15 and 30 hours per week) during parental leave unless urgent business reasons prevent such part time work. After expiry of the parental leave, you returns to your previous position.

If you are about to report Father´s leave in BambooHR you have to choose the type "Parental Leave".

Any working parents are also entitled to receive sick days in order to take care of their sick child or children under 12 years old. You may take 10 working days for each child suffering illness, with a maximum of 25 days yearly. Single parents get a slightly larger allowance with 20 working days and up to 50 days yearly.

You report care of sick child in BambooHR.

You are also entitled to the ‘Pflegezeitgesetz’, also known as the ‘Law on Family Care Time’ where employees can take up to a maximum of ten working days with unpaid leave to care for close relatives in urgent conditions. These ten days can also be taken to arrange care for close relatives.

If you are about o request Pflegezeitgesetz in BambooHR you have to choose the type "Care for dependent".

Study Leave is an unpaid leave that we offer our employees that would like to study in our German office. Thus, your requested planning of the leave is up to the employer (usually your closest manager) to give approval for. Talk to your manager or you HR Business Partner if you have questions regarding this.

You request for Study leave in BambooHR.

Bildungsurlaub allows employees by law to attend courses on special kinds of topics during their working time - up to 5 days per year. To enable this, courses and institutions need to be recognized for Bildungsurlaub. This can be reached by applying to the according ministries in Germany. If you have any questions regarding this, please talk with your closest manager.

You request for Bildungsurlaub in BambooHR.

Are you getting married? If you are getting married on a week day EMG gives you the wedding day off as one day paid leave. This only applies for you who are permanently employed and if the wedding day is not in July. It is also possible to take unpaid leave days before the wedding day.

You request for a Marriage day in BambooHR.

We all know just how stressful moving into a new home can be, especially when moving day happens on a week day! As an employer we want to help you release that stress a bit by offer all permanent employed employees one day paid leave on moving day. This can be used once a year.

You request for a Moving day in BambooHR.

Loosing a close one is of course hard. At a funeral of a close relative one day's paid leave is given when the funeral is in Germany on weekdays (Permission). One extra day paid leave is given for funerals abroad that requires travel on weekdays. At the funeral of close relative the possibility of extra unpaid days exists (on leave). Related parties include husband and wife, cohabitants, children, parents, siblings, grandparents.

You request for Funeral leave in BambooHR.