Holiday schedule for Hung King’s Anniversary, April 30 – May 1, with businesses working on Saturdays

According to the Labor Code, employees are entitled to leave work and receive full salary according to the labor contract for 1 day on Hung King’s Death Anniversary (March 10th of the lunar calendar) .

This year’s Commemoration Day falls on Thursday, April 18, which is a mid-week working day after Friday, April 19. labor nationwide Return to work as usual.

Also according to labor law on April 30 and May 1 workers are entitled to 1 day off for each holiday . In 2024, April 30 falls on Tuesday and May 1 falls on Wednesday.

Therefore, according to the usual schedule with Saturday work units enterprises will only have two days off on Mondays Tuesday and Wednesday and are not allowed to take off on other days.

Thus, the holiday schedule from April 30 to May 1 of businesses working on Saturday will be implemented according to the employer’s agreement. and workers who do not apply the leave schedule just approved by the Prime Minister.

However Ministry of Labor – War Invalids and Society encourages employers to apply holiday time off for Victory Day, April 30, and International Labor Day, May 1, for employees as prescribed for civil servants, but ensure full implementation. Benefits for employees according to the law encourage more beneficial agreements for employees.

So if an enterprise takes a day off on Monday (April 29), employees Employees will have 4 consecutive days off from Sunday (April 28) to Wednesday (May 1) and arrange appropriate compensation days.

In case the enterprise organizes work Alternating 2 Saturdays in the month and taking the second day off according to the approved exchange schedule, the employee can take 5 consecutive days off and arrange to work to make up for it on the appropriate occasion.

If the application If employees do not take a day off on Monday, they will have a day off on Sunday (April 28), Tuesday (April 30) and Wednesday (May 1). Monday, April 29, go to work as usual.

As noted by the reporter Dan Tri  many businesses arrange for workers to take 4-5 consecutive days off to have a long holiday so they can return home to visit relatives.

If the business organize 4-5 consecutive days off in the last 2 weeks of April, employees can take a total of 6 days off.

According to the provisions of point a, clause 2, Article 107 of the 2019 Labor Code and clause 1 Article 59 of Decree 145/2020/ND-CP, enterprises that want to use employees to work overtime on holidays must obtain the employee’s consent (except in some cases where the company is assigned to work overtime without the employee’s consent as prescribed in Article 108 of the 2019 Labor Code).

Regarding overtime pay as prescribed in Article 98 of the 2019 Labor Code, employees work overtime on occasion. Daytime holidays are paid at least 300%, not including holiday wages, for employees receiving daily wages.

Employees’ overtime pay is exempt from personal income tax.< /p>

Thus, employees who work on days off during the holidays are paid at least 300% of their salary, not including the salary for public holidays and paid holidays for employees receiving daily wages. .

In case the employee works at night and works overtime at night, he/she will be paid at least 30% of the salary calculated based on the unit price of the salary and 20% of the salary calculated based on the unit price. salary or wages for work done during the day on a normal working day or on a weekly day off or on a public holiday.