National public holidays 2020

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Continuing the discussion from National public holidays 2019:

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Our company is moving the Feb 28 holiday (Peace Memorial Day) to Jan 22. Is this common?

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“#@!$ peace, this is new year’s”

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Feb 15th is a working day?

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Yes, exchanged with Jan 23

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Jan 23 is CNY, no?

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Not according to Google Calendar

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So they moved the Saturday Feb 15 to Jan 23 to get a full week?!

Our worksheet
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My question was about Jan 22

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Not in any of the companies I’ve worked in Taiwan.
I’d think that’s not even allowed, unless it was decided together with the workers representative, but I may be wrong.

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I don’t really mind. It just seemed weird to me.

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Seven of the months in 2020 have no holiday.

2019 had five of the months with no holiday.

Looks like five long weekends.

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What’s with the random Saturdays that aren’t days off?

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This is usually to have continuous holidays. e.g. holiday is on Thursday then they exchange the Friday workday with Saturday in a different week, so you have off from Thursday to Sunday.

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We work to «compensate» for extra days off that fall between two holidays. Welcome to Taiwan.

I have plenty of days off. Definitely taking those Saturdays. As a matter of fact, I can see myself having long weekends -4 days each- once a month if well planned. If a sacrifice has to be made, let’s go all the way.

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Proper day is 25th. 24th is the big night.

Most places around my house will start closing the 22nd. Interesting.

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I presume food-based stuff like supermarkets and night markets and restaurants stay open for CNY? Malls, etc?

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Yep. Costco closes one day because they are nice, but most supermarkets just give employees a couple extra hours to go home for the big dinner.

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More confusion… :ponder:

Can someone confirm for which day 2/15 (Saturday) was the make up day?

Our company claims we need to work this Friday too to make up for another day.

according to company schedule…
2/15 make up for 1/23
2/28 make up for 1/22

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Ooh, your company sounds evil.
The 2/15 Saturday make up was indeed for 1/23, as per the government.
Working on Peace Memorial Day (2/28), when it should be a long weekend, is a mean move by your company… if they gave you the extra day off for CNY (1/22), they should have been clear about making you work on a national holiday later on. I’d be pissed.

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I forgot I actually posted this last year

So they made it clear.

Anyway the holiday situation in Taiwan is ridiculous.

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