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🇧🇪Belgium

The statutory system provides a maximum of four weeks under the employee’s work pattern, subject to prior-year work and special rules.

Statutory paid annual leaveUp to 4 weeks (normally 20 days on a 5-day schedule)Annual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent20 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedBelgian FPS Employment
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How to make your leave go further

Public-holiday planning

  • Easter Monday, Ascension Day and Whit Monday create recurring spring opportunities.
  • National Day and Assumption can be useful when they fall beside a weekend.
  • Some workers receive additional sector or employer leave beyond the statutory system.

Legal basis and comparison method

The statutory system provides a maximum of four weeks under the employee’s work pattern, subject to prior-year work and special rules.

Regional and calendar caveats

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

Official employment source: Belgian FPS Employment. Open official guidance ↗

This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.

Planner

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

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