Parental Leave

What is Parentalparental Leave?

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Parental leave is ana unpaidlegally breakprotected period away from work for mothers and fathers who want to personally care for and raise their child. As an employee, you can request parental leave from Smart. DuringYou parentalcan leave, Smart must grant youtake up to 3 years offof workparental leave per child.child. During this time, you do not needhave to work and willdo not receive a salary.salary Asfrom compensation,Smart. Under certain conditions, you can, for example,may apply for parental allowance.allowance (Elterngeld) as financial support.

Good to Know:know:

• Each parent can take parental leave.
• You do not necessarily have to apply forreceive parental allowance at the same time in order to take parental leave.
• ParentalDuring leaveparental allowsleave, you tocan reduce your workworking hours to 0%0 whileand remainingreceive no salary. If you are publicly health insured.insured, you are generally covered by health insurance without having to pay contributions during parental leave, provided you have no other income subject to social security contributions.
• During parental leave, you can generally work up to 32 hours per week on a monthly average.
• You can take up to 3 years of parental leave per child.

Please note that during parental leave, you may not be employed at all, or at most 30 hours per week (part-time during parental leave).

Parental Leaveleave and Smart

The keymost important information:

• ForIf healthyou insurancedo (andnot otherreceive a salary from Smart during parental leave, no social insurances),security nocontributions money isare deducted from this salary. If you work part-time during parental leave, social security contributions are generally payable on your budget.employment income.
• During parental leave,leave without a salary, you CANNOTcannot process assignmentsorders andthrough willyour notemployment receiverelationship awith salary.Smart. You can only do this ifIf you workwant to continue processing orders, you need to be employed part-time.time accordingly.
• If you decide to work part-time andduring receiveparental leave while receiving parental allowance or parental allowance plus (Elterngeld PlusElterngeldPlus), your assignmentsincome shouldmay notaffect exceedthe amount of parental allowance you receive. The amount of parental allowance depends, among other things, on your employment/allowanceincome ratio.before Forand example,after ifthe you have a part-time contractbirth of EURyour 1200 net per month and receive EUR 520 Parental Allowance Plus per month, you should not invoice more than approximately EUR 2200 per month through Smart.child.
• You can,can fordivide instance, plan threeyour parental leave periodsinto withseveral aperiods. 0 EUR salary and include phases in between in whichIf you paywant yourselfto receive a salary (fromagain existing/accumulatedbetween budget).these For this,periods, we need exactdetailed information about your orders and the amountsplanned of your assignments.payments.

Applying for Parentalparental Leaveleave

Please informInform us viaby email that you would like to go ontake parental leave. We will then send you the applicationnecessary for parental leave by email.documents. Please registernotify us of your parental leave in good time: at least 7 weeks before theit start of parental leave.begins.