Easily manage employment in Armenia

Paid Time Off is 20 days for all employees with a 5 day work week and 24 days for employees with a 6 day work week. Extended annual leave of up to 25 working days is granted to certain categories of employees whose work involves great nervous, emotional, intellectual strain or professional risk. Every employee is also entitled to 12 paid public holidays every year.

Mothers in Armenia receive a total of 140 days of maternity leave in most cases. The employee may begin to take maternity leave 70 days before the due date, then for another 70 days after birth. Births with complications extend post-birth leave to 85 days, for a total of 155 days. In cases of multiple births, total maternity leave extends to 180 days. Employees receive 100% of their average wages while on leave, with an upper limit of five times minimum wage.

Fathers in Armenia are entitled to five days of paid leave at 100% average pay. All five days must be used within 30 days of birth.Armenia currently does not recognise same-sex partnerships. Therefore, parents in same-sex relationships are not entitled to leave. Companies may elect to provide their own paid parental leave.

New parents in Armenia may be entitled to unpaid childcare leave until the child reaches the age of one

Employers provide paid sick leave from the 2nd to the 5th day. After the 6th day they may be covered by social insurance.

Employees in Armenia who take sick leave because of a work-related injury or illness must be paid their regular benefits until they are fit to return to work. For illnesses not related to work, employees who are sick for fewer than 120 consecutive days (or 140 days in the last year) are entitled to return to work at their original position and pay, provided they do not exceed those limits.