The Social Insurance Law 2024, which officially took effect from July 1, 2025, has added regulations on cases where employees are entitled to sick leave benefits, including:
Employees receive treatment for illnesses that are not occupational diseases; receive treatment for accidents while traveling from home to work or from work to home by reasonable routes and times as prescribed by law on occupational safety and hygiene; donate, take, or transplant human tissues or organs as prescribed by law; use precursor drugs or combination drugs containing precursors as prescribed by medical practitioners at medical examination and treatment facilities.
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Sick leave period: The maximum sick leave period in a year is calculated by working days, excluding holidays, New Year holidays, and weekly days off, and is regulated. Specifically, working under normal conditions, you are entitled to 30 days if you have paid compulsory social insurance for less than 15 years; 40 days if you have paid from 15 years to less than 30 years; 60 days if you have paid for 30 years or more.
Employees working in arduous, toxic, dangerous or especially arduous, toxic, dangerous occupations or jobs on the list of arduous, toxic, dangerous or especially arduous, toxic, dangerous occupations or jobs or working in areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions are entitled to 40 days if they have paid compulsory social insurance for less than 15 years; 50 days if they have paid from 15 years to less than 30 years; 70 days if they have paid for 30 years or more.
Sickness benefit level: According to regulations, the sickness benefit level of employees is equal to 75% of the salary used as the basis for social insurance payment; equal to 65% of the salary used as the basis for social insurance payment if they have paid compulsory social insurance for 30 years or more; equal to 55% of the salary used as the basis for social insurance payment if they have paid compulsory social insurance for 15 years to less than 30 years; equal to 50% of the salary used as the basis for social insurance payment if they have paid compulsory social insurance for less than 15 years.
The notable new regulation is that the daily sickness benefit is calculated by dividing the monthly sickness benefit by 24 days. The half-day sickness benefit is calculated by half the daily sickness benefit. When calculating the sickness benefit for employees who are absent from work due to sickness for less than a full day, the absence from work of less than half a day is counted as half a day; from half a day to less than one day is counted as one day.
| The Law on Social Insurance 2024 also stipulates that employees are not entitled to sick leave in the following cases: Self-inflicted injury or self-harm; use of narcotics or drug precursors according to the list prescribed by the Government, except for the use of precursor drugs or combination drugs containing precursors as prescribed by a medical practitioner at a medical examination and treatment facility. During the first time having to take time off work for treatment and rehabilitation due to a work accident or occupational disease... |
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