[quote]The following memorial days and holidays are a day off except for Chinese New Year with three consecutive days off：
1 - Memorial Days:
(1) Founding Day of the Republic of China (January 1)
(2) Peace Memorial Day (February 28)
(3) National Day (October 10)
2 - Customary holidays:
(1) Chinese New Year (first three days of the lunar calendar year )
(2) Tomb Sweeping Day (observed on Qingming Festival)
(3) Dragon Boat Festival (fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar)
(4) Mid-Autumn Festival (fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar).
(5) Chinese New Year’s Eve (the last day falls of the lunar calendar year)
3 - Children’s Day (April 4)
When the memorial day or holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, a deferred day off will be granted. If a memorial day or a holiday falls on a Saturday, the deferred day off is on the preceding workday; if a memorial day or a holiday falls on a Sunday, the deferred day off is on he following workday. However, the deferred days off for Chinese New Year’s Eve and Chinese New Year are always on the following workdays.
Regulations for a deferred holiday for Labor Day and regulations for Armed Forces Day and its deferred holiday shall be determined by the responsible central government agencies.[/quote]
Is anyone actually going to work on Saturday January 30th? I imagine most teachers will still have that day off as it falls during the winter vacation period.
May 1st labour day not made up by a holiday? I know government workers don’t get it because they are not the common people, but surely private workers get that holiday?
Lucky besterds. I love how my coworkers don’t even blink to state very firmly "of course we have to work. we must make up for (whatever day it is) so we can get the whole week. :loco:
Lucky besterds. I love how my coworkers don’t even blink to state very firmly "of course we have to work. we must make up for (whatever day it is) so we can get the whole week. :loco:[/quote]
I offered to work the day it is making up for during CNY since I’m not going anywhere. I was denied… So yes, some of us will be working that Saturday. :fume:
Our buxiban ignores those makeup Saturdays. They are just stupid. I don’t mind the extra holiday but it is stupid to do a 6 day work/school week.[/quote]
Tell that to China
When I was in Shenzhen in 2013-2014. We actually had a 7 + 1 or 2 days work week before Chinese New Year. It was ridiculous, but we got to leave 2 days earlier than the big migration. So there was a huge plus.
I remember my boss gave the option of doing a longer work week or just going by what were the national holidays. So it wasn’t just a decision made and we didn’t have a choice. Everyone opted for the longer work week to leave early.
Our buxiban, which is open Mon~Sat and has adult and school-aged clients, will have no students that Saturday because they’ll all be doing their make-up day. Hence, we normally have the make-up Saturdays off :bravo:
Article 23
The commemorative holidays referred to in Article 37 of the Act include the following:
Founding Day of the Republic of China: January 1
Peace Memorial Day: February 28
National Day: October 10 Labor Day referred to in Article 37 of the Act is Labor Day on May 1. Other holidays prescribed by the central competent authority as set forth in Article 37 include the following:
Chinese New Year: January 1 to 3 on the lunar calendar;
Children’s Day: April 4. Shall Children’s Day and Tomb Sweeping Day fall on the same day, day off shall be the day before; shall it fall on a Thursday, then the day off shall be the day after;
Tomb Sweeping Day: on Qingming Day;
Dragon Boat Festival: May 5 on the lunar calendar;
Mid-autumn (Moon) Festival: August 15 on the Chinese lunar calendar
Chinese New Year’s Eve: the last day of December on the lunar calendar;
Other holidays designated by the central competent authority.
Article 23-1
A makeup holiday shall be given for any of the holidays specified in Article 37 if any of the following situations occurs:
It falls on a regular day off prescribed in Article 36 of the Act;
It falls on a day on which employees need not attend work as a result of reduction of the normal working time specified in Paragraph 1 of Article 30 of the Act.
If the Labor Standards Act applies to you (as it does to over 90% of the workforce according to the Ministry of Labor), you are entitled to all of the holidays listed in Article 23 of the Enforcement Rules of the Labor Standards Act.
Just checking the official schedule and noticed we have “make up work” Saturdays on June 4th and September 9th. :bluemad: This is to make up for the Fridays caught in between Dragon Boat and Mid Autumn festivals.
However, we do get April 4th and 5th -which would be wonderful to watch the cherry blossoms in Japan, if it weren’t for the fact that probably flights are already booked solid and anyways, thanks to global warming, they are already blooming. At least it won’t be as bad as the penguins but rats and double rats.
To anyone who didn’t know already, this Saturday ( February 20th) will be a make up day for most teachers, since the January 30th make up day fell during the winter vacation period.
Agreed. Even more idiotic that they split it this year between teachers/students and office workers! Would have been much easier to just have it all on this Saturday instead, or better yet, not at all…
The Legislative Yuan’s Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee has told the Ministry of Labor its reduction of holidays for this year was invalid. No new comment on the MOL’s website yet.
This would be awkward, because September 9 is a Friday, shouldn’t we suposed to work on Fridays .
And as for June 4th, probably most work because it’s last day of Computex
This would be awkward, because September 9 is a Friday, shouldn’t we suposed to work on Fridays .
And as for June 4th, probably most work because it’s last day of Computex[/quote]
Thank you. Someone finally paying attention to my posts!
OK, CORRECTION: September 10th is a working day.
Hence, the following weekend is a 4 day one, September 15th to 18th all off.
June 4th so we have June 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th all together off.
There are actually a reasonable amount of long weekends now in Taiwan! That is if you don’t have to do the make-up days, it works out as a pretty sweet deal.
I love how my coworkers don’t even blink to state very firmly "of course we have to work. we must make up for (whatever day it is) so we can get the whole week. 
:loco:
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