While workers are performing their duties, moral impossibilities arising from personal reasons usually because of their relatives may occur. These situations which happen because of the death of the firstdegree relatives of workers, a male employee’s wife giving birth, adoption, marriage, the treatment of a child with a disability or a chronic illness, make the employee absent from work for a short period of time. Although it has been applied for a long time in labour law, it was regulated for the first time under the title of “excused leave” in additional article 2 of Labour Code no 4857 in 2015 granting the employees the right of paid leave due to absenteeism. Altough it is referred as a “leave”, its purpose is not to rest, like other leaves. This study aims, we try to explain the excused leave in the context of their use and the consequences of not being able to use them, in comparison with the Maritime Labour Law, The Press Labour Law and Civil Servants Law. Finally, the study brings light to the positive and negative aspects of the regulation within the framework of the implementation problems related to the excused leave.