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Mandatory Schedule for Employees' Annual Leaves  Scrapped

Sofia, August 12 (BTA) - Amendments to the Ordinance on working hours, rests and leaves remove the obligation on employers to endorse a schedule of employees' paid annual leaves during the year but introduce a requirement whereby by the end of January each year employers are to inform employees on the length of paid annual leave the latter are entitled to use, including postponed or unused leave from previous years, the government's information service said on Wednesday.

Employees are to use their annual paid leave by the end of the calendar year for which it is due. Where the employee has not demanded his or her leave by the end of the calendar year for which it is due, the employer may serve a written invitation to the employee. If the employee does not wish to use the leave, the employer may ask him or her to do so without his/her consent. Where the annual leave has been postponed or left unused by the end of the calendar year for which it is due, the employer is under the obligation to ensure the use of such leave by June next year at the latest. In case the employer has not allowed the use of such leave by the deadline, the employee may himself/herself determine the time when he/she will use it within the prescribed deadline, by a 14-day prior notice in writing to the employer.