Leave Benefits

Axelerant team members own their leave planning for rest and rejuvenation in conjunction with manager and peer collaborations when relevant. Visit Leave Taking for details.

Consolidated Leave

Consolidated Leave is Axelerant's naming of a combined leave pool for casual, earned, holidays, marriage, menstrual, mental health, sick, or other leave purposes.

All full-time Axelerant team members are eligible for 35 days of Consolidated Leave annually.

Bereavement Leave 

Five days of Bereavement Leave allow team members time to grieve and arrange for final affairs upon the demise of immediate family members like spouse, parent, sibling, children, partners, or miscarriage.

Care Giver Leave

Ten days of Care Giver Leave allows team members to assist their dependents with severe medical conditions or a health event requiring emergency care leave: E.g., emergency admission to hospital, an unexpected illness, or last-minute care arrangements.

A team member's dependent is typically considered direct family members like children, parents, adoptees, partners or spouses, and in-laws.

Force Majeure Leave

Force Majeure Leave is available to team members when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond their control, such as a war, strike, riot, crime, epidemic, or an activity described by the legal term act of God, prevents them from fulfilling their role obligations.

For example, localized Internet shut down due to political unrest; or natural calamities negatively affecting the team member or their immediate family.

Maternity, Adoption, and Miscarriage Leave

The maximum paid period for which any pregnant person is entitled to Maternity Leave is sixteen (16) weeks, of which not more than eight (8) weeks shall precede the expected delivery date. Up to twelve (12) weeks for a third child and beyond.

A person who legally adopts a child below the age of two years is entitled to Maternity Leave for twelve (12) weeks starting a week before the child's arrival.

A person who miscarried a child is entitled to Maternity Leave for six (6) weeks beginning the day of their miscarriage.

Maternity Leave (India)

The maximum paid period for which any pregnant person is entitled to Maternity Leave is twenty-six (26) weeks for the first two (2) children, of which not more than eight weeks shall precede the expected delivery date.

Paternity Leave

The maximum paid period for any paternity person to be entitled to Paternity Leave is ten (10) days during pre- and post-natal childbirth days.

Volunteer Leave

One (1) day of Volunteer Leave allows Axelerant's team members a chance to give back to their communities. And please share what you do in #guild-volunteer.

Leave Without Pay

Leave Without Pay is time away from work without compensation: E.g., Medical Leave, sabbatical, or study time.

Kindness Leave Pool

The Kindness Leave Pool is for full-time Axelerant team members facing emergencies or requiring health and wellness leave in which all other leave options have been exhausted.