Easily manage employment in Ecuador

Employees are entitled to 15 days of continuous annual leave, including weekends (i.e. 11 working days + 4 weekend days).

Ecuadorian law mandates that employees should take the 12 public holidays off, and if the nature of the job or the employment contract requires an employee to stay on the job during a public holiday, the employer will compensate with a working day off.Payment for public holidays depends on the agreement reached between employers and their staff, i.e., it should be pre-negotiated.

Up to 2 months, at 50% of the employee’s pay.

New mothers are entitled to 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, of which the employer will be responsible for 25% while social security covers the rest.

The employer is required to grant the working father a paid parental leave of 10 days for a natural birth, 15 for multiple births or birth by C-section, and 23 days if the baby is premature or has special needs.

Employees who obtain a scholarship for studies abroad after spending more than 5 years with a company are entitled to an entire year of absence, with their salaries paid for 6 months, provided the scholarship is in a field related to the employee’s work activity.

- Bereavement leave: employees are entitled to one day of paid leave for the death of any 1st or 2nd-degree relative.- Hospitalisation leave: parents are entitled to 25 days of leave if any of their children are hospitalised.- Adoption: adoptive parents are entitled to 15 days of leave, from the day their child is handed over to their legal custody.