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.
Child´s sick day
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.
Parental leave
Parents are entitled to paid leave for a total of 52 weeks after the child is born.
Mothers have the right to paid leave 4 weeks before childbirth and 14 weeks after birth. Fathers have the right to paid leave for 4 weeks.
The parents are entitled to 34 weeks of paid leave after the first 14 weeks which they can divide between them as they wish.
Academic employees are entitled to normal salary from their employer for 28 weeks when having a child. After that they can receive benefit from the Parental Leave Fund.
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.
Trade unions
Most employees in the Faroe Islands are members of a trade union. Trade unions have extensive rights in respect of negotiations with employers and their organisations.
Central wage contracts are made between trade unions and employer organisations.
Trade unions also maintain the professional interests of their members at their place of work.
