Overview of the most important workers’ rights

WHAT

General rights of workers are common to all employment relationships.

• You have the right to be paid for your work, regardless of the type of work or employment contract.
• You have the right to perform work agreed upon in the contract.
• You have the right to work in safe working conditions.
• You have the right to personal data and privacy protection (protection from sexual harassment, protection of worker’s personal data).

• You have the right to legally defined working hours. Full-time employment equals 40 hours per week; if you work longer, this is considered as overtime.
• The right to breaks and rest. When you work full-time, you have the right to a 30-minute break during the work day. You also have the right to a rest period of at least 24 uninterrupted hours within a period of seven consecutive days.
• The right to annual leave. When you work full-time, your annual leave should not be shorter than four weeks – 20 working days per calendar year.
• You have the right to be paid at least the minimum wage. If you are employed part-time, you are entitled to a proportionate share of the minimum wage.
• You have the right to maternity leave that lasts 105 days (15 weeks), four weeks before the birth and 11 weeks after birth. It is obligatory to take 15 days of leave.
• Fathers are entitled to 90 days of paternity leave.
• You have the right to annual leave payment. When you are in an employment relationship in Slovenia, you are entitled to so-called annual leave payment or 13th salary (regres). The amount of the annual leave payment must be at least the minimum wage.

More information is available at the Labour Inspectorate of Slovenia (Inšpektorat Republike Slovenije za delo) (in Slovenian): http://www.id.gov.si/

WHERE

Labour Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia (Inšpektorat Republike Slovenije za delo)
Verovškova ulica 64a, 1000 Ljubljana
Tel: +386 1 280 36 60
http://www.id.gov.si/
Email: gp.irsd@gov.si

Ljubljana, Slovenia