Statutory notice period
The minimum notice an employer must give. Contracts and collective agreements can lengthen it and only rarely shorten it, and the tenure bands are where cross-border assumptions usually go wrong.
Employer's ordinary dismissal under the Employment Relationships Act, graded by ground and service. The employee's own resignation carries fifteen days under a year of service and thirty from a year, extendable by contract to at most sixty.
| Service | Employer notice | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Business or incapacity ground, up to 1 year of service | 15 days | runs from the day after service of the dismissal |
| Business or incapacity ground, 1 to 2 years | 30 days | same rule |
| Business or incapacity ground, over 2 years | 30 days plus 2 per completed year, at most 60 | same rule |
| Business or incapacity ground, over 25 years | 80 days | unless a sectoral collective agreement sets another period, never under 60 |
| Fault-based dismissal | 15 days | same rule |
| Failed probation | 7 days | same rule |
Service with legal predecessors of the employer counts. The parties may agree money in place of part or all of the period, in writing. During employer notice the worker holds paid hours for job search.
Source: 94. člen ZDR-1: minimalni odpovedni roki, Zakonodaja.com, full statutory text; 94. člen ZDR-1, Računovodstvo.net, full statutory text. Checked on 2026-07-27.
Minimum paid annual leave
The statutory floor for paid holiday. The counting basis matters as much as the number, since some laws count a six-day week and others count working days or calendar weeks.
4 weeks per year.
Counted out by the individual weekly pattern, twenty working days at five a week. Older workers, the disabled and carers of children needing special care hold at least three extra days, and one more day attaches per child under fifteen. On top of leave the employer owes a yearly holiday allowance, the regres, of at least the minimum wage, payable by the first of July.
Source: 159. člen ZDR-1, Zakonodaja.com, full statutory text; Letni dopust in regres, Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs; 131. člen ZDR-1: regres, Zakonodaja.com, full statutory text. Checked on 2026-07-27.
Probation limit
The longest trial period the law allows an employer to agree, together with the notice that applies while it runs.
6 months at most, with notice of 7 days on a dismissal for failing the trial; the employee may also resign during it on the ordinary short period during it.
Agreed in the contract, at most six months, pro-rated to the term and nature of a fixed-term contract; a consecutive fixed-term contract for the same work may not carry a new trial.
Extendable for temporary absence from work.
Source: 125. člen ZDR-1: poskusno delo, Računovodstvo.net, full statutory text; 125. člen ZDR-1, Zakonodaja.com, full statutory text. Checked on 2026-07-27.
Employer social contributions
What the employer pays on top of gross salary into statutory schemes. Some countries charge a percentage of pay, others charge flat amounts, and a single headline rate hides caps, regional rules and industry-rated items.
Figures apply for 2026.
| Scheme | Rate, per cent of pay | Charged on |
|---|---|---|
| Pension and disability insurance, employer share | 8.85 | the whole salary, with no ceiling |
| Health insurance, employer share | 6.56 | the whole salary, with no ceiling |
| Occupational injury and disease | 0.53 | the whole salary, with no ceiling |
| Parental protection, employer share | 0.1 | the whole salary, with no ceiling |
| Unemployment insurance, employer shareWaived for two years on indefinite hires; charged fivefold on fixed-term contracts. | 0.06 | the whole salary, with no ceiling |
| Long-term care contribution, employer shareIntroduced from July 2025; the employee pays a mirrored one per cent. | 1 | the whole salary, with no ceiling |
| Sum of the shares aboveNo ceiling applies to the contribution base. | 17.1 |
Employees carry around a further fifth of gross in their own shares, withheld from pay. The yearly regres up to the average wage stays free of contributions.
Source: Stopnje prispevkov za socialno varnost, Računovodja.com; Prispevek za dolgotrajno oskrbo od 1. julija 2025, Saop; Prispevek za dolgotrajno oskrbo, Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia. Checked on 2026-07-27.