Number of days of paid leave:
- If you have one child: up to 10 days
- If you have two children: up to 12 days
- If you have three or more children: up to 15 days
- If you have a child with a chronic or long-term illness or reduced functional ability and there is a marked increase in the risk of your absence, you are entitled to up to 20 days
- If you are sole caregiver, the number of days is doubled
When you are entitled to leave with care allowance, you who have responsibility for a child are entitled to time off with care allowance when it is necessary because:
- the child is ill and needs supervision and care at home or in a healthcare institution
- the child must be accompanied to the doctor or needs other follow-up because of illness, even if the child is not ill or in need of care on that particular day
- the person who normally has daily care of the child is sick
- the person who normally has daily care of the child accompanies another child for assessment or hospital admission and therefore cannot supervise the child
Registration and documentation
Absence is registered in DFØ or the DFØ app with absence type "Sykt barn/barnep sykdom" (sick child/childcarer illness). Absence can be recorded for whole or half days.
For children over 12 years, a copy of the approval letter from NAV must be sent to lonn@uia.no.
Registration requires that children up to 12 years are registered in DFØ under Personal data.
For absences longer than three calendar days due to a child’s or childcarer’s illness, the employer may request a medical certificate.
Rights and obligations
You must have been employed at UiA for at least 4 weeks immediately before the absence. Full salary is paid during a child’s illness, provided the statutory conditions are met. If the employer has reasonable grounds to believe the absence is not due to illness, the employee may lose the right to use self-certified sick leave.
Sole caregiver?
If you are the sole caregiver, the number of days of entitlement is doubled. The same applies if two people are ordinarily responsible for the child, but one of them is long-term prevented from supervising the child due to their own reduced functional ability, hospitalization as a long-term patient, or other comparable circumstances.
Are you entitled to care allowance from NAV?
If you do not meet UiA’s qualifying employment period, you may be entitled to care allowance from NAV. You may receive:
- 10 days per calendar year if you care for one child
- 12 days per calendar year if you care for two children
- 15 days per calendar year if you care for more than two children
- 20 days per calendar year if you are sole caregiver for one or two children
- 30 days per calendar year if you are sole caregiver for more than two children
- +10 days per calendar year if the child is chronically ill or disabled
- +20 days per calendar year if the child is chronically ill or disabled and you are sole caregiver
The two last items require prior approval from NAV (see NAVs care benefit pages).
Employees caring for children under 18 with life-threatening or very serious illness or injury have specific rights defined in the main collective agreements (paragraph 20 no. 4) and in legislation: the Working Environment Act § 12-9 and the National Insurance Act, chapter 9.
If the parents do not live together, entitlement to care days may vary depending on how custody is shared.