Federal Act
on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code
(Part Five: The Code of Obligations)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 30 March 1911 (Status as of 1 January 2022)


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Art. 329i138

7. Leave to care for a child whose health is ser­i­ously im­paired by ill­ness or ac­ci­dent

 

1 If an em­ploy­ee is en­titled to carer’s al­low­ance un­der Art­icles 16n–16s of the Loss of Earn­ing Com­pens­a­tion Act (LE­CA) of 25 Septem­ber 1952139 be­cause his or her child’s health has been ser­i­ously im­paired by ill­ness or ac­ci­dent, he or she is en­titled to carer’s leave of a max­im­um of 14 weeks.

2 The carer’s leave must be taken with­in a peri­od of 18 months. The peri­od be­gins on the day for which the first daily al­low­ance is claimed.

3 If both par­ents are in em­ploy­ment, each par­ent is en­titled to carer’s leave of a max­im­um of sev­en weeks. They may choose to ap­por­tion the leave in a dif­fer­ent way.

4 The leave may be taken in one stretch or on a day-to-day basis.

5 The em­ploy­er must be in­formed im­me­di­ately about the ar­range­ments made for tak­ing the leave and about any changes to these ar­range­ments.

138 In­ser­ted by No II 1 of the FA of 20 Dec. 2019 on Im­prov­ing the Com­pat­ib­il­ity of Work and Caring for Fam­ily Mem­bers, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2021 (AS 2020 4525; BBl 2019 4103).

139 SR 834.1

 
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