{"id":1355,"date":"2013-01-15T22:35:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investcro.virtualna-tvornica.hr\/?page_id=1355"},"modified":"2023-12-01T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:35:00","slug":"working-hours","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/employment\/working-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Working hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There are three basic categories of working time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full-time work, which should not be longer than forty hours per week,<\/li>\n<li>Part-time work, which is any working time shorter than full-time,<\/li>\n<li>Part-time work for jobs where it is not possible to protect workers from harmful influences even when applying occupational safety measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In case of force majeure, an extraordinary increase in the scope of work or other similar cases of urgency, the worker must work longer than the full or part-time work duration (overtime) at the employer\u2019s request; however, the total duration of work must not exceed fifty hours per week.\u00a0Overtime work for a worker may not exceed one hundred and eighty hours per year, unless there is agreement in the form of a collective agreement, in which case it may not, nonetheless, exceed two hundred and fifty hours per year.\u00a0For performed overtime work, the worker is entitled to an increased salary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rest and leave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Labour Act stipulates a minimum break of 30 minutes during working hours for employment which includes at least 6 hours of work per day, unless otherwise stipulated by special law.\u00a0During any period of twenty-four hours, the worker is entitled to a period of daily rest to last at least twelve hours continuously.<\/p>\n<p>An exception to the above mentioned is when the employer is obliged to provide an adult worker for seasonal jobs, which is performing twice during the working day, and to ensure the right to a daily rest period of at least eight hours continuously.<\/p>\n<p>The law further stipulates a weekly rest period of at least twenty-four hours and annual leave of at least 4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The law, also, prescribes an exceptional right to have paid leave with compensation when important personal needs arise, especially in regard to marriage, wife giving birth to a child, serious illness or death of close family member.\u00a0At the worker\u2019s request, employer may grant unpaid leave, during which time all rights and obligations arising from or in connection with the employment are temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three basic categories of working time: Full-time work, which should not be longer than forty hours per week, Part-time work, which is any working time shorter than full-time, Part-time work for jobs where it is not possible to protect workers from harmful influences even when applying occupational safety measures. In case of force <a href=\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/employment\/working-hours\/\" class=\"more\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1339,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-featured.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Working hours - Invest Croatia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Information for investors - Regulation of working time, rest and leave in the Republic of Croatia - Labor Law\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Working hours - Invest Croatia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Information for investors - Regulation of working time, rest and leave in the Republic of Croatia - Labor Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Invest Croatia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-01T14:35:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/iStock_000000253378_Small.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"849\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"565\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/\",\"name\":\"Working hours - Invest Croatia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-01-15T22:35:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-01T14:35:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"Information for investors - Regulation of working time, rest and leave in the Republic of Croatia - Labor Law\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"ENH\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Employment\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/employment\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Working hours\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Invest Croatia\",\"description\":\"Ministartsvo gospodarstva, poduzetni\u0161tva i obrta\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"ENH\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Working hours - Invest Croatia","description":"Information for investors - Regulation of working time, rest and leave in the Republic of Croatia - Labor Law","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Working hours - Invest Croatia","og_description":"Information for investors - Regulation of working time, rest and leave in the Republic of Croatia - Labor Law","og_url":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/","og_site_name":"Invest Croatia","article_modified_time":"2023-12-01T14:35:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":849,"height":565,"url":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/iStock_000000253378_Small.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/","url":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/","name":"Working hours - Invest Croatia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-01-15T22:35:38+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-01T14:35:00+00:00","description":"Information for investors - Regulation of working time, rest and leave in the Republic of Croatia - Labor Law","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"ENH","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/zaposljavanje\/radno-vrijeme\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Employment","item":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/employment\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Working hours"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/","name":"Invest Croatia","description":"Ministartsvo gospodarstva, poduzetni\u0161tva i obrta","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"ENH"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35736,"href":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1355\/revisions\/35736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investcroatia.gov.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}