Public-holiday planning
- Use the planner to place annual leave immediately before or after public holidays and weekends; then confirm the exact holiday calendar and entitlement with your employer before booking.
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After a continuous full year, the Labour Law provides at least three weeks of annual leave for service below five years and four weeks for five years or more.
Statutory paid annual leaveAt least 3 weeks after 1 year; 4 weeks from 5 yearsAnnual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent15 days at year 1; 20 at 5 years; 20 at 10 yearsNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedQatar — Al Meezan legal portal
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Legal basis and comparison method
After a continuous full year, the Labour Law provides at least three weeks of annual leave for service below five years and four weeks for five years or more.
Equivalent by service length
| 1st year / first full entitlement | 15 days |
| 2 years | 15 days |
| 5 years | 20 days |
| 10 years | 20 days |
| 20+ years | 20 days |
Simplified comparison points. Actual legal thresholds may use anniversaries, cumulative service, education credits or other 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: Qatar — Al Meezan legal portal. 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.
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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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