As regards the maximum duration of a business trip abroad, it should be noted that the Labor Law (“Official Gazette of the RS”, Nos. 24/2005, 61/2005, 54/2009, 32/2013 and 75/2014), which regulates the rights and obligations of employees and employers, does not prescribe such a limit. However, Article 118 of the Labor Law provides that reimbursement of an employee’s travel expenses for a business trip abroad must be regulated by the employer’s general act or by the employment contract.

Accordingly, the employer should regulate all matters related to foreign business travel in its internal act, including the maximum uninterrupted duration of such travel. In practice, this is usually up to 15 consecutive days, and exceptionally, when required by the specific nature of the work to be completed, the competent body of the employer (for example, the director) may extend it to a maximum of 30 days.

In addition, if the employer’s internal act or employment contract allows employees to be sent on a foreign business trip for more than 30 consecutive days, or more than 90 days in total with interruptions during one calendar year, and if according to those acts the employee’s stay abroad on that basis should exceed 60 consecutive days or 90 days with interruptions during the year, then the provisions and conditions prescribed by the Law on Conditions for Posting Employees to Temporary Work Abroad and Their Protection (“Official Gazette of the RS”, No. 91/2015) apply to that employee.