"I hereby ratify"

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

No 1384-N of 11 August 2005

ON ESTABLISHING THE LIST OF EMPLOYEES OF SPECIFIC CATEGORY ENTITLED TO ADDITIONAL ANNUAL LEAVE, MINIMUM DURATION OF THE LEAVE AND THE PROCEDURE FOR THE PROVISION THEREOF

Pursuant to part 2 of Article 161 of the Labour Code of the Republic of Armenia, the Government of the Republic of Armenia decides:

1. To define:

(a) the list of employees of a specific category entitled to additional annual leave and the minimum duration of the leave according to Annex No 1;

(b) the procedure for granting additional annual leave according to Annex No 2.

2. This Law shall enter into force on the tenth day following the day of its official publication and shall extend to relations arising after 21 June 2005.

Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia	A. Margaryan
29 August 2005 Yerevan

Annex No 1 to Decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia No 1384-N of 11 August 2005

LIST

OF EMPLOYEES OF A SPECIFIC CATEGORY ENTITLED TO ADDITIONAL ANNUAL LEAVE AND THE MINIMUM DURATION OF THE LEAVE

No i/s	Profession, field	Working on five-day working pattern (working day)	Working on six-day working pattern (working day)
1	2	3	4
1.	Physicians	2	2
2.	Dentists	2	2
3.	Pharmacologists and pharmacists	2	2
4.	Nurses	2	2
5.	Male nurses	2	2
6.	Technician-chemists	2	2
7.	Veterinarians	4	4
8.	Train, electric train and engine drivers	5	6
9.	Bibliographers, archivists, archive fund keepers, operator of computer and digitising equipment of an archive, laboratory restoration specialists, bookbinders and disinfectors, heads of department of archivistics of an archive, records managers, print production, underground archival repository maintenance and film industry employees and related specialists	5	6
10.	Librarians	5	6
11.	Airplane pilots and related specialists	4	4
12.	Flight operations officers	9	10
13.	Air traffic safety technicians	4	4
14.	Customs officers	4
15.	Tax officers	4
16.	Community servants	4
17.	Diplomatic service officers	4
18.	Political office holders except for deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and members of the Government of the Republic of Armenia	4
18.1.	Administrative positions, autonomous positions, except for judges of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia, Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia, judges, prosecutors of the Court of Cassation, Court of Appeal and first instance courts of the Republic of Armenia, employees of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia and employees of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia	4
19.	Persons holding discretionary and civil positions, and persons carrying out civil works	4
19.1.	Prosecutors	7
20.	Judicial officers	4
20.1	Officers of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia, officers of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia	7
21.	Journalists	4	4
22.	Employees of “Hayincassatsia” CJSC	4	4
23.	Employees of the Central Bank and the banking system of the Republic of Armenia	4	4
24.	Trainmen, cabin and ship attendants	4	4
25.	Public transport conductors	4	4
26.	Workers and truck drivers engaged in mining, capital mining, construction and installation, and construction and repair works	9	10
27.	Miners, truck drivers and workers in other fields, in the field of underground and opencast mining, powder men, stonemasons, stone setters and related specialists	9	10
28.	Builder-adjusters and related specialists	5	6
29.	Workers-straighteners engaged in construction and construction and repair works, and related specialists	5	6
30.	Colourers, building (structure) surface cleaning workers, and related specialists	5	6
31.	Workers and truck drivers engaged in constructions of mines (ore mines), quarries (open-pit mines), subways, tunnels and special underground constructions	9	10
32.	Metalwork and machine industry workers	5	6
33.	Moulders, welders, blacksmith, rollermen, structural metal maker and related makers, related specialists	5	6
34.	Toolmakers-locksmiths, machine-tool operators, set-up operators, workers and related specialists	5	6
35.	Workers engaged in enamel coating, metal coating and colouring	5	6
36.	Workers engaged in production of abrasive materials, synthetic diamonds, ultrahard materials and products therefrom and natural diamonds	9	10
37.	Workers for publishing industry	4	4
38.	Welders, electro-gas welders, cutting torch operators and related specialists	5	6
39.	Crane drivers and related specialists	5	6
40.	Assembly fitters for electric, electromechanic and radioelectric devices and related specialists	5	6
41.	Operators, instrument control men and mechanics for chemical production equipment, repairmen-fitters and electrical fitters for installations, boiler-house, turbine and steam-turbine equipment, pumping installation, power generating unit, electricity generating station and chains, radar installation, main radar system, and related specialists	5	6
42.	Repairmen engaged in apical works on aerial circuit and electricians-fitters for repairing power cables and installing lead sleeves on cable lines	5	6
43.	Workers for charging and maintaining basic and flooded batteries	5	6
44.	Engineers-technicians working at a height of more than 2.000 metre above the sea level	5	6
45.	(point repealed by N 1420-N of 29 November 2018)
45.1.	Penitentiary officer of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia: (1) in case of up to 15 years of service record (2) in case of 15-25 years of service record (3) in case of 25 and more years of service record	2 7 9
46.	Employees of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant carrying out the following works: (1) maintenance of electric power equipment and automatic equipment in boiler-house, turbine (non-active vapour turbines) rooms, oil production objects (units) of nuclear power plants; (2) manual production and padding of chemicals, supply of nuclear power plants' circuits, process management of chemical water purification and water demineralisation for supplying heating network and evaporators, reconditioning of filters with acids, salts and alkalies, preparation and proportionment of lime solution and chlorination of water for spray ponds and cooling systems; (3) maintenance of means of measurement, control and operation systems (automatic devices, regulating devices, technological protection devices, stoppers, signal systems, etc.) of boiler-house, (non-active vapour) turbine, fuel supply rooms (units); (4) oil intake and pumping in nuclear power plants; (5) switching in cycle arrangements, control over operating equipment by visits to boiler-house, (non-active vapour) turbine rooms (units); (6) ceiling travelling cranes control in boiler-house, (non-active vapour) turbine rooms (units); (7) cooled boilers cleaning; (8) heated boilers enveloping; (9) maintenance of underground heat transmitters' heating networks' constructions and power-and-heat supply points in nuclear power plants; (10) maintenance and repair of diesel and locomobile power stations in closed structures; (11) repair of heat-conducting and heating network structures in nuclear power station; (12) coating of boilers and heat-conductors of heating networks in nuclear power stations for heat insulation; (13) repair and adjustment of electric power equipment, automation measuring means, relay protection and automatics operating in boiler-house, turbine rooms (units), oil industries, tunnels and cogeneration chambers of nuclear power stations; (14) testing and parameter measurement of electric equipment, electrical networks of 220 kV and higher voltage and open distributing gears of nuclear power stations (non-active vapour turbine); (15) maintenance and repair of aerial circuit without voltage removal in non current-carrying part; (16) timber preservation works; (17) height works during the repair of aerial circuit and electric substation equipment; (18) clean-up, construction and repair works in turbine rooms (units) of nuclear power stations	5	6
47.	Employees of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant carrying out the following works: (1) ceiling travelling cranes control in reactor, turbine (active vapour turbines), reactor-turbine special water-treatment rooms (units); (2) sample taking from goods containing radioactive materials and analysis thereof; (3) maintenance of active vapour heat network, boiler equipment; (4) cleaning of production facilities of main (primary) circuit of nuclear power plants; (5) maintenance of electric power equipment and auxiliary systems of main (primary) circuit in reactor, turbine, reactor-turbine, chemical rooms (units); (6) maintenance of special water and gas treatment, ventilation, hot and cold air supply systems and facilities in the buildings of main (primary) circuit of nuclear power plant; (7) maintenance and repair of nuclear fuel and other materials, goods handling, transport-technological equipment in reactor rooms (units); (8) maintenance of measuring means control and operation (automatic equipment, regulating devices, technological protection devices, stoppers, signal systems and other devices) in reactor, turbine (active vapour turbines), reactor-turbine special water-treatment rooms (units); (9) repair and adjustment of reactor, turbine (active vapour) electric power equipment, automatics and measuring means, relay protection and automatics operating in turbine, reactor fuel supply rooms (units); (10) repair of equipment contaminated with radioactive materials, processing of materials and parts; (11) acceptance-delivery of instruments, equipment, materials and parts contaminated with radioactive materials; (12) deactivation of equipment and facilities contaminated with radioactive materials, acceptance and treatment of work wear, safety footwear and other necessary protection means; (13) radiation-measuring control in the building of main (primary) circuit of nuclear power plant; (14) collection, transport, processing and disposal of radioactive waste; (15) repair and construction works being performed in main (primary) circuit of nuclear power plant; (16) heated boilers cleaning; (17) maintenance and repair of live current-carrying parts of substations, overhead electric lines and electrical equipment	9	10
48.	Dispatchers of operators of the power system	6	7
49.	(1) maids of general-type institutions (orphanages) of social protection of population for children left without parental care, child care boarding institutions, child care centres, child and family support centres, special state institutions of general education; (2) hospital attendants of general type institutions of social protection of the population (boarding houses of general type) for the elderly persons and/or persons with disabilities.	4	4

(Annex supplemented by N 190-N of 23 February 2006, N 307-N of 16 March 2006, N 417-N of 12 April 2007, amended, supplemented by N 1231-N of 9 September 2010, supplemented by N 72-N of 20 January 2011, N 183-N of 03 March 2011, edited by N 1239-N of 11 August 2011, supplemented by N 1042-N of 25 September 2014, N 888-N of 6 August 2015, N 1068-N of 20 October 2016, N 1369-N of 29 December 2016, N 1450-N of 16 November 2017, N 376-N of 5 April 2018, N 375-N of 5 April 2018, amended, supplemented, edited by N 1420-N of 29 November 2018, amended by N 1378-N of 27 August 2021)

Minister-Chief of Staff of the Government of the Republic of Armenia

M. Topuzyan

Annex No 2 to Decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia No 1384-N of 11 August 2005

PROCEDURE

FOR GRANTING ADDITIONAL ANNUAL LEAVE

1. This Procedure defines the procedure for granting leave to employees of a specific category entitled to additional annual leave.

2. Additional annual leave shall be granted for each working year — in the given year.

3. Additional annual leave, upon the consent of the parties, may be added to minimum annual leave or granted separately.

4. Additional annual leave for the first working year shall be granted after six months of uninterrupted work at the given organisation. For the second and each subsequent working year annual leave shall be granted at any time of the working year, in accordance with the succession for granting annual leaves. The procedure for establishing succession shall be defined by a collective agreement, and where such agreement is not made — upon the consent of the parties.

5. Prior to the expiry of six months of uninterrupted work in the given organisation, additional annual leave shall be granted at the request of an employee in the following cases:

(a) to women before or after maternity leave;

(b) in other cases provided for by the collective agreement.

6. After six months of uninterrupted work in the given organisation, the following persons shall have the right to choose the time of additional annual leave:

(a) employees under the age of 18;

(b) pregnant women and employees taking care of a child under the age of fourteen.

7. Men shall be granted their annual leave at their request during the pregnancy and the maternity leave of their wives.

8. Additional annual leave for employees studying without interruption of their employment shall be, at their request, adjusted with the time of their examinations, tests, preparation of the thesis and laboratory activities.

9. The employees taking care of an ill or disabled person at home, as well as employees with chronic diseases the exacerbation of which depends on the conditions of the atmosphere shall be granted additional annual leave at the time of their choice, on the basis of the medical conclusion.

Minister-Chief of Staff of the Government of the Republic of Armenia

M. Topuzyan

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