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Croatia PEO/EOR employment termination and notice period
In Croatia, the provisions of the Labour Act stipulate that both the employer and worker may terminate the employment contract. The PEO/EOR employer in Croatia may terminate the employment contract based on the stipulated or agreed notice period if there is a justified reason to do so. This type of ordinary dismissal can happen in case of a:
- business-related dismissal (if the need for a specific job ceases due to some technical, economic or organizational reasons);
- dismissal on personal grounds (the employee is not able to perform properly due to some permanent abilities or characteristics);
- dismissal due to dissatisfaction with probation work (the employee simply did not perform well during the probationary period).
The employee can terminate the employment contract in line with the agreed notice period without stating specific reasons.
The termination period can vary between two weeks for employees who have worked for less than one year to three months for employees who have been employed for 20 consecutive years. The termination period starts on the date of delivering the notice of termination of the employment contract.
Croatia EOR/PEO employment: Salary, employer costs and working hours
In 2022, the average annual wage in Croatia was $16.381,00. This is much lower than the average annual wage in the United States: $53.490,00.
As a PEO/EOR employer in Croatia, the actual employer costs are 16.50% higher than the gross annual salary, as we have seen in the social contribution in Croatia. Based on a $16,981 annual salary, the employment costs would be $19.002,75.
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The standard working week in Croatia is 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week. In some cases, if an extraordinary increase in the scope of work happens where an employee has to work longer hours at the employer’s request, the total duration of hours can be extended up to 50 hours per week.
In total, the overtime work for the employee must not exceed 180 hours per year unless an agreement has been made between the employer and employee in the form of a collective agreement. In that case, the total amount of working hours cannot exceed 250 hours per year. For every hour of performed overtime work, the employee is entitled to get an overtime compensation rate, as stipulated in the employment contract or collective agreement.
If an employee works at least 6 hours per day, he has the right to have a minimum break of 30 minutes during working hours unless otherwise stipulated by special law.
Paid vacation leave and public holidays in Croatia EOR/PEO employment
Every employee is entitled to an annual holiday of a minimum of 4 working weeks per year (20 days), which can be used after 6 consecutive months of working for people employed for the first time. Paid vacation days can be used all at once or distributed as per employee's preferences during the year.
Apart from that, an employee also has the right to use up to 7 days leave per year for important personal events (e.g. marriage or death of a close family member).
In Croatia, there are 14 public holidays considered non-working days:
- New Year's Day – 1 January
- Epiphany – 6 January
- Easter Sunday – 17 April
- Easter Monday – 18 April
- Labour Day – 1 May
- Statehood Day – 30 May
- Corpus Christi – 16 June
- Anti-Fascist Struggle Day – 22 June
- Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day – 5 August
- Assumption of Mary – 15 August
- All Saints Day – 1 November
- Remembrance Day – 18 November
- Christmas – 25 December
- St. Stephen's Day – 26 December
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