Paid leave, explained for people who run teams
How much paid leave are your people owed?
Entitlements for 46 countries and 51 US jurisdictions, what happens to unused days, and what you owe when someone leaves — checked against the actual rules, not vendor marketing.
- Free under 9 people
- No card
- Swiss-made · SOC 2
The European Union guarantees a floor of four weeks — 20 working days — of paid annual leave, and several members go further: Luxembourg sets 26 days, and Austria, Denmark, Finland, France and Sweden set 25. Australia guarantees four weeks that never expire. The United States guarantees nothing at all — it has no federal paid leave law, and whether unused time is paid out when you leave depends on which of the 51 jurisdictions you work in.
Find your rule
The legal minimum, country by country
Working days on a five-day week, so 30 Werktage, 5.6 weeks and 30 calendar days sit in one honest table. Contracts can add to these — never subtract.
Also by country: sick leave and sick pay · maternity, paternity and parental leave.
Then stop tracking it by hand
One place for leave, time and shifts — with the audit trail you'll need.
Leave management
Time off, done right.
Requests flow through approval routes based on teams and reporting lines. Balances recalculate live, so you never over-allocate.
- Half-day & hour-level requests
- Carry-over automation
- Live holiday API, 100+ countries
- Year-versioned leave policies
Time tracking
Payroll-ready, audit-proof.
Worked and overtime minutes calculate themselves. Every edit is logged with a full before/after trail — the record that settles a dispute.
- Immutable before/after audit log
- Day & week validation workflows
- Badge / clock-device support
- Contract vs planned vs worked reports
Shift planning
Plan, publish, lock.
Draft the week from reusable shift types, copy last week in a click, publish to everyone at once. Approved leave and days off appear inside the rota, so nobody gets scheduled while they're away.
- Reusable shift types with colours
- Draft → publish → auto-lock lifecycle
- Copy-week and bulk edit
- Time-change and day-off requests
Leavo AI · your HR assistant
Employees ask the assistant, not you.
"How many vacation days do I have left?" gets answered from live balances, with a request button right there — no more interrupting whoever runs HR.
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Whether you owe unused PTO depends on the state.
12 jurisdictions treat accrued PTO as earned wages. 4 — California, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska — ban "use it or lose it" outright. Everywhere else, your written policy decides, and silence is read against you.
All 51 US jurisdictions →Free for teams under 9 · No card · Cancel anytime
Stop reconciling leave in a spreadsheet.
Leavo applies each country's entitlement, public holidays and carryover rules automatically — with approvals and an immutable audit trail. Swiss-made, SOC 2 compliant.
Start free with LeavoWhy trust this site
Primary sources, linked
Every page links the statute or agency guidance it summarises, so you can check our work rather than take our word.
Comparable figures
Countries express leave in Werktage, calendar days or weeks. We convert everything to working days on a five-day week.
Review dates on everything
Employment law moves. A page with no date is a page you cannot rely on.
We say when not to buy
Under ten people in one country, a spreadsheet is fine — and we say so where we'd earn a commission for saying otherwise. How we make money.