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Severance pay and notice period — statement
Hungarian Labour Code (Act I of 2012), ss. 68–70, 77, 80 and 148
The employee
Name [FULL NAME]
Job [JOB TITLE]
Employer [EMPLOYER]
Town [TOWN]
Service when dismissal was communicated [YEARS] years [MONTHS] months
Dismissal communicated on [DATE OF NOTICE]
Monthly absence fee HUF [AMOUNT]
Reason [REASON]
The calculation
Item Result
Service in years (years + months ÷ 12) [ ]
Notice period (s. 69) [ ] days
Garden leave, at least (s. 70) [ ] days
Last day of employment [ ]
Severance (s. 77) [ ] months' absence fee
Severance pay (gross) HUF [ ]
The statutory scale
Service at least Notice Severance Near pension age
0 years 30 days 0 months 0 months
3 years 35 days 1 months 2 months
5 years 45 days 2 months 3 months
8 years 50 days 2 months 3 months
10 years 55 days 3 months 5 months
15 years 60 days 4 months 6 months
18 years 70 days 4 months 6 months
20 years 90 days 5 months 8 months
25 years 90 days 6 months 9 months
Notice starts the day after communication (s. 68); the extension applies only when the employer dismisses (s. 69(2)).
Garden leave is at least half the notice, in up to two parts as the employee wishes (s. 70).
Severance and garden-leave pay are gross: the employer deducts personal income tax and contributions.
Employee: __________________ Signature: ____________ Date: ___/___/______
For the employer: __________________ Signature: ____________ Date: ___/___/______
Letter: request for severance and final pay
[FULL NAME]
[ADDRESS] · [PHONE] · [EMAIL]
[TOWN], [DATE]
To: [EMPLOYER]
Human Resources / Payroll
Subject: severance pay and final settlement
Dear Sir or Madam,
I acknowledge receipt of your dismissal notice. According to section 69 of the Labour Code my notice period is [NOTICE DAYS] days, so my employment ends on [LAST DAY]. Under section 70 I ask to be released from work for [GARDEN LEAVE DAYS] days, [IN ONE PART / IN TWO PARTS: DATES].
With [SERVICE] of service, under section 77 I am entitled to severance pay of [N] months' absence fee, HUF [AMOUNT] gross according to the attached statement.
Please pay my salary, the severance, the pay in lieu of untaken holiday (section 125) and all other amounts due, and issue the certificates, no later than the fifth working day after my last day at work, as section 80(2) requires.
Thank you for your cooperation. I am available to hand over my work in good order.
Yours faithfully,
[FULL NAME] Signature: ________________
Enclosure: severance and notice statement.
When employment ends: checklist
Document or step Deadline Done
Pay, amounts due and certificates (s. 80(2)) 5th working day ☐
Untaken holiday paid out (s. 125) with final pay ☐
Written reference on request (s. 81) within 1 year ☐
Court claim against unlawful dismissal (s. 287) 30 days ☐
Register as a jobseeker at the district office — ☐
Arithmetic under the Hungarian Labour Code, not legal advice. Gross amounts. Names and companies in the examples are fictitious.