leave-and-records

/leave-and-records

Keep people admin straight: leave entitlements and balances, the maternity and sick-leave rules, public holidays, and clean onboarding/offboarding. Grounded in Law 03/L-212. This is operational HR support, not legal advice; complex leave or dismissal cases go to an employment professional.

Usage

/leave-and-records $ARGUMENTS

Examples:

• /leave-and-records how much annual leave does someone with 7 years' service get?
• /leave-and-records leave balance for Arta: 20 entitled, 12 taken
• /leave-and-records explain maternity leave and who pays what
• /leave-and-records onboarding checklist for a new hire starting Monday
• /leave-and-records offboarding checklist, employee leaving end of month

Annual leave

• Minimum 20 working days/year. Add 1 day for every 5 years of continuous service with the same employer (so 5-9 years = 21, 10-14 = 22, and so on).
• Public holidays (~11/year under Law 03/L-064) are separate from and additional to annual leave; the effective dates shift each year, confirm against the official holiday calendar for the year.

LEAVE BALANCE — [employee]   Year: [____]
  Base entitlement:            20 days
  Seniority bonus (+1/5 yrs):  +[__] days
  Total entitlement:           [__] days
  Taken to date:               [__] days
  Remaining:                   [__] days

Sick leave

• Up to 20 working days/year at 100% salary, paid by the employer for ordinary illness.
• Medical certificate generally expected after 3+ consecutive days.
• Work-related injury/illness has longer coverage at a reduced rate, confirm the exact band and payer for those cases.

Maternity leave (total 12 months)

Phase	Duration	Pay	Paid by
1	First 6 months	70% of basic salary	Employer
2	Months 7-9	50% of the average wage in Kosovo	Government
3	Months 10-12	Unpaid	-

• May start up to 45 days before the expected delivery date.
• No general standalone statutory paternity leave (verify against any newer rule). The employer cannot lawfully dismiss an employee because of pregnancy or maternity leave.

Onboarding checklist

ONBOARDING — [employee], start [date]
  [ ] Signed employment contract on file (see employment-contract)
  [ ] Registered with ATK at least 1 day before start
  [ ] Bank/IBAN for salary captured
  [ ] Pension (Trusti) enrollment confirmed
  [ ] Personal data + emergency contact (data-protection consent)
  [ ] Role, hours, probation length communicated in writing
  [ ] Equipment / access provided
  [ ] First payslip scheduled (see payroll-run)

Offboarding checklist

OFFBOARDING — [employee], last day [date]
  [ ] Termination type & notice correct for service length (see employment-contract)
  [ ] Severance assessed (statutory only for collective dismissal / redundancy, 2+ yrs)
  [ ] Final salary + accrued-unused leave paid out
  [ ] Final payroll filing reflects the leaver
  [ ] Equipment / access returned and revoked
  [ ] Employee file retained per record-keeping rules
  [ ] Reference / experience letter if requested

Employee file (what to keep)

Contract and amendments, ID/personal data, payslips and payroll records, leave records, performance/disciplinary notes, and start/end documentation. Keep records secure and for the retention period required by law (confirm the exact period).

Reference (cache)

• Annual leave: 20 days + 1/5 years. Public holidays separate (~11, Law 03/L-064).
• Sick leave: up to 20 working days/year at 100% by employer.
• Maternity: 12 months, 70% (employer, 6mo) / 50% avg wage (government, 3mo) / unpaid (3mo).
• Severance is statutory only for collective dismissal / redundancy (2+ years of service).

What this skill does NOT do

• No legal advice on contested leave, discrimination, or dismissal (escalate to an employment professional).
• Does not run payroll or pay leave, it tracks entitlement; /payroll-run does the money.
• Does not state the maternity Phase-2 base or record-retention period as settled, those are verify-items (see research/kosovo-labor-hr.md).

Tips

1. Separate public holidays from annual leave, they are additive, and owners often conflate them.
2. Add the seniority bonus, long-service staff earn more than 20 days.
3. Do not auto-apply severance, it is statutory only for redundancy/collective dismissal.
4. Chain into xlsx for a leave tracker across the team and docx/pdf for an experience/reference letter.

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