19 § Family leave

1.       Special maternity leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave, parental leave, and child-care leave shall be determined on the basis of the Health Care Act and the Sickness Insurance Act. The employer is entitled to receive the maternity allowance paid to the employee over the same period of time on the basis of the Sickness Insurance Act or the part of it that corresponds to the salary paid.

 2.       The employer will pay three months’ salary to a female employee in connection with statutory maternity leave. The precondition is that uninterrupted employment have continued at least five months before childbirth.

 3.       An employee who has adopted a child younger than school age is entitled to unpaid adoption leave of three months.