No cenário trabalhista, conhecemos diversos tipos de licença, remunerada (paid) ou não (unpaid) pelo empregador, sem ou com garantia de emprego (job protected leave).

Nesse contexto, a tradução do termo licença para o inglês é, em regra, leave [of absence]. Tanto o termo leave como o termo licença formam colocações com diversos outros termos. Entre essas combinações lexicais temos¹:

• licença adoção - foster care leave

"Foster care leave: When an employee becomes a foster parent, he/she may request and be granted up to 12 weeks of leave, to be taken any time during the 12 months beginning with the date of placement of the child."²

• licença gestante - pregnancy leave

"Failing to credit female workers for pregnancy leave in their pensions amounts to a current violation of antidiscrimination laws."

• licença maternidade - maternity leave

"Out of 177 countries surveyed, 169 offer paid maternity leave, 145 guarantee paid sick days, 137 mandate paid vacation[.]"

• licença médica - medical leave

"Troubling news tonight for Apple cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence until the end of June."

• licença não remunerada - unpaid leave

[The] "Family and Medical Leave Act, which allowed workers at larger firms to take unpaid leave because of pregnancy or medical conditions."

• licença paternidade - paternity leave

"[.] we all know that the concept of men taking paternity leave is still taboo in plenty of workplaces."

• licença remunerada - paid leave

[In] "BULGARIA Moms receive 45 days of paid leave prior to their due date, and can take a full two years of paid leave per child."

• licença saúde - sick leave, disability leave

"In 1978, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which required companies to offer pregnancy leave on equal terms with disability leave policies for men."

• licença trabalhista - worker's leave

"Unless there is a relevant agreement for another date, the worker's leave year begins on the date employment commenced [.]"³

Atenção para o cognato license (e.g. driver's license), pois nem sempre representará a alternativa de tradução mais idiomática.

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