Ansprüche nach dem Pflegezeitgesetz und Familienpflegezeitgesetz

With the family care period, you have the opportunity to reduce your working time to up to 15 hours per week for a maximum of 24 months in order to care for a close relative in a home environment in need of care.

You are only entitled to family care time if your employer has at least 26 employees (those employed in vocational training are not counted). Family care time is only granted to you if your/your relative has at least 1 care level.

Employment contract arrangements for family care time:

• You must enter into a written agreement with your employer on working time and the distribution of hours.
• Your employer can only object to your wishes for working time for urgent operational reasons.
• A change in the fixed working hours during the current family care period is only possible if your employer agrees.

You can apply for an interest-free loan to cushion the income path.

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Connection family care time with care time:

• Care time (according to the Care Period Act) can be used directly before or directly after the family care period (according to the Family Care Period Act).
• If the family care period is used before the care period, the family care period must be announced to the employer eight weeks before the desired start.
• If the family care period is used after the period of care, the notice period for the family care period is three months.
• In total, the care period and the family care period may not exceed 24 months.

Close relatives within the meaning of the Family Care Time Act are:

• Grandparents, Parents, In-laws, Stepparents
• Spouses, civil partners, partners of a marriage-like community, partnership-like communities
• Siblings
• Children, adoptive or foster children
• Children, adopted or foster children of the spouse or civil partner, children-in-law and grandchildren
• Sisters-in-law

Possibility of reducing working hours to care for a close relative

• Maximum duration: 24 months
• Remaining minimum working time: 15 hours per week
• Legal claim if the company employs at least 26 employees
• Proof of a degree of care (at least 1) required
• Care must be provided in a home environment

• Sample form for announcing the family care period

• Forms for applying for the interest-free loan

• Both are available on the website https://www.wege-zur-pflege.de/