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Manual on using
the right to annual leave

This Manual on using the right to annual leave is created in conformity with the current Law on Labor of FBiH and the Rulebook on Labor of the International University of Sarajevo.

Necessary information related to exercising the right to annual leave is as follows:

For every calendar year, you have the right to annual leave for as many days as stipulated in your employment contract.

If you are employed for the first time or you have a termination between two employments longer than 15 days, you acquire the right to annual leave after 6 months of uninterrupted work. In this case, you still have one day of annual leave for every completed month of work.

The annual leave does not include time periods of temporary work incapacity, non-working holidays and other periods of absence included in the employee's pensionable service.

Related to annual leave days, take into consideration that the working hours are divided into 5 working days.

Annual leave may be used in one or multiple parts. If you want to use your annual leave in this way, the first part must be used in the total length of 12 working days pursunat to Labor Law of FBIH and has to be used within the current calendar year, and the rest of the annual leave has to be used by 30 June of the following year the latest.

In order to transfer the annual leave into the next calendar year, you have to start using the annual leave in the current year.

You have the right to use one day of your annual leave whenever you want, but in that case, you have to inform your Employer at least three days prior to the day of your planned annual leave.

Please plan your annual leave timely, taking into consideration the undisrupted work organization during your absence.

Please use the E-Campus to submit your annual leave request no later than 7 days before the planned start of the leave.

We will do our best to process your request within 48 hours and deliver it to your e-mail address. 

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