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Leave days: how they build up, what they are worth, when they expire

Leave days: how they build up, what they are worth, when they expire: this guide has a section for each question: how annual leave accrues in each country…

This launch guide maps the topic, the source base and the practical questions. Check the linked official authority before acting on a rule, deadline, price or safety requirement.

What this guide covers

This guide has a section for each question: how annual leave accrues in each country, the leave-pay calculation with a worked example, unused leave and the period after which it expires, leave that collides with sick leave, child leave days, study leave and how much of it is paid, unpaid leave and what it does to your pension and insurance, and the payout when you leave a job. One focus is "Unused annual leave: when it expires in each country, and what a court has said about it".

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How to use it

Use Leave days: how they build up, what they are worth, when they expire as a map of the process: identify the situation, check which country or authority owns the rule, and confirm the current version before a deadline or application.

The page keeps the main question, its evidence base and its limits together in one canonical place. That makes it useful as a quick orientation and avoids splitting a broad subject into shallow pages before each narrower answer has enough verified material of its own.

Search vocabulary in four languages

Terminology changes across borders. These are example phrases people use for the same subject in Estonian, Finnish, Russian and English; they are included as a practical vocabulary aid, not as hidden keywords.

Evidence and provenance

The evidence map below records the primary, official or openly licensed material chosen for this guide. It is deliberately visible so a reader can tell the difference between a rule published by an authority, a measured dataset and an editorial explanation.

Source: Directive 2003/88/EC; Riigi Teataja (Töölepingu seadus and the holiday-pay regulation) with Tööinspektsioon; Finlex (Vuosilomalaki) with Työsuojeluhallinto; the Latvian and Lithuanian labour codes. · checked 2026-09-09

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Scope and boundaries

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