Easily manage employment in Mauritius

After working with an employer for the first 12 months, Mauritian employees are entitled to 22 days of paid leave every year.

There are 16 public holidays Mauritian employees can take as paid days off. If expected to work on a public holiday, employees are entitled to double their normal wages for the first eight hours of work done before 10 p.m. and triple their normal wages for any work exceeding eight hours or lasting past the hour of 10 p.m.

After working for an employer for 12 months consecutively, employees with a basic pay of MUR 50,000 or less are entitled to 15 day of sick leaves. However, the company can at its discretion, give more.

Female employees are entitled to 14 weeks of maternity leave, starting six weeks before delivery, and remunerated at a 100% rate if the employee has worked with the employer for 12 months consecutively. The mother must take at least seven weeks of this allotted leave after delivery of the child. In case of a stillbirth, the employee is entitled to 14 weeks’ leave on full pay.

Fathers get five paid days of paternity leave off work.

- Bereavement leave: Upon the death of an employee, the employer is mandated to issue a bereavement benefit to the employee’s spouse or whoever demonstrates that they bore the funeral expenses.- Adoption: Female employees who’ve been engaged with the same employer for 12 months consecutively are entitled to 14 weeks of fully paid adoption leave if the latter adopts a child aged below 12 months.