Take parental leave after the first three years of life
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Schleswig-Holstein (Linie6Plus)
Service Description
If you have not taken all of your parental leave during the first 3 years of your child's life, you can take the remaining time, up to a maximum of 24 months, between your child's 3rd and 8th birthday. You must register this in good time.
If you are entitled to parental leave, you can take up to 3 years of parental leave per child. You can take your parental leave in one piece or split it up.
You can also take a maximum of 24 months in the period from your child's 3rd birthday up to and including the day before his or her 8th birthday.
During this period, the same provisions apply in principle as for the parental leave you take before your child's 3rd birthday. There are the following special features:
- You must notify your employer of the parental leave 13 weeks before it is scheduled to begin.
- Protection against dismissal begins 14 weeks before the start of parental leave.
- You can only receive qualifying periods in the unemployment insurance and claims in the pension insurance from the 3rd birthday if you work part-time during the parental leave subject to social insurance.
If you take the 2nd period of parental leave after your child's 3rd birthday, you do not need your employer's approval after registration.
If you want to divide the parental leave into 3 or more periods and the 3rd period is to start only after your child's 3rd birthday, you need your employer's approval. Your employer may refuse the 3rd period for urgent operational reasons.
Teaser
If you have not taken all of your parental leave during the first 3 years of your child's life, you can take the remaining time, up to a maximum of 24 months, between your child's 3rd and 8th birthday. You must register this in good time.
Process flow
You can register parental leave after your child's 3rd birthday in writing with your employer:
- You inform your employer in an informal letter with signature when you would like to take parental leave.
- It is not possible to register by telephone or e-mail.
- You can have your employer confirm the following:
- That you have registered for parental leave,
- the period of parental leave, and
- the date on which you registered for parental leave.
If it is the 3rd period of your parental leave, your employer may refuse the registration for operational reasons.
Requirements
- If you wish to take parental leave between the 3rd and 8th year of your child's life, you must not have used up the total parental leave to which you are entitled by then.
- Your employer will not refuse to register the third period of parental leave from the child's 3rd birthday.
What are the fees?
Levy: free of chargeThere are no costs involved.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
You must register parental leave in the period from your child's 3rd birthday to the day before his or her 8th birthday no later than 13 weeks before the start of this parental leave.
In urgent, exceptional cases, shorter deadlines may apply. This may be the case, for example, if adoption care could not be planned in time. In such cases, you should notify your employer of the parental leave as early as possible. The deadline depends on the circumstances of the individual case. The employer does not have to insist on the application deadline and may accept a shorter deadline.
Your employer may refuse to register the 3rd period of parental leave from your child's 3rd birthday for urgent operational reasons. This must happen within 8 weeks after your application for parental leave has been received.
Legal basis
Appeal
No appeal provided.
What else should I know?
There are no clues or specifics.
- Informationen zur Elternzeit auf dem Familienportal des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)
- Service-Team des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)
- Informationen zum Thema Elternzeit auf der Internetseite des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)
- Broschüre "Elterngeld und Elternzeit" auf der Internetseite des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)
- Broschüre "Elterngeld, ElterngeldPlus und Elternzeit – Für Geburten bis 31.08.2021“ auf der Internetseite des Bundministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)
Author
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