Employment rights

Academics with an employment contract have the right to six weeks´ paid holiday a year. The stipulation of holiday must be agreed upon in advance.

An employee with a fixed monthly salary has the right to paid leave from work if he or she is unable to work due to illness. The employer can demand to see a doctor´s certificate, though usually not before a week´s period of illness.

Academics with a fixed monthly salary have the right to 2 days of paid absence from work if his or her child is taken ill. The total number of days absent from work due to children´s illness cannot exceed 10 days a year for each child.

Female academic employees have the right to leave with normal salary for 24 weeks when having a child. After the first 14 weeks from childbirth either the mother or the father can claim the remaining weeks of leave with normal salary.

After the 24 weeks of leave with normal salary the mother or the father is entitled to leave with pay from the Parental Leave Fund until 46 weeks after birth.

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Parental Leave Fund   (in Faroese)

Faroese employers are obliged to insure all employees against work related injuries. The employee or his or her next of kin is entitled to compensation in case of injury, disease or death in connection with carrying out work.

Employees who have a Faroese retirement pension are normally supplementary insured against consequences of disability, serious disease and death.