Pneumonia Scare 2
Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:32![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekIn less than 3 hours, there has been a development. Government institutions will get Thursday and Friday off as well.
Let me explain.
We have a maybe complicated, but probably enviable "public holiday" system.
Government holidays are divided into "Statutory Holidays" and "Public Holidays."
"Statutory Holidays" (triple pay days) are holidays that no matter what, an employee will get. It's 10 days a year. Big holiday days like 1-January, 1-May, the 3 days of Chinese New Year, etc... are Statutory Holidays. The employer MUST give the employee this holiday. If the staff has to work on these Statutory holidays, they get an extra day off and extra pay, with the extra day off and extra pay combined equivalent to a "triple pay". If a Statutory day falls on your regular day off, you get to have a "Compensation day off".
Regular public holidays are not obligatory. If it falls on your regular day off, you will not get a "compensation". You either get the day off, or if you work you get a "double pay", but you don't get the extra day off.
In my company, we just newly got the all-holidays thing (we used to only get the Statutory holidays, now we get the regular public holidays as well).
Anyway, for these 3 CNY days, as it falls on a Saturday and a Sunday, we get compensation day offs. I can use 2 days of holidays within 180 days now. Government institutions though, have the custom to get the compensation day offs immediately after. So the City is practically dead until tomorrow. I chose to work these 2 days because I like the flexibility to choose my future day offs, and going to work these 2 days is almost like not going to work anyway (not many people working anyway)
But now that the government has announced for people to not work on Thursday and Friday.... this is a dead city this week.
I need to deposit 2 cheques..... I wonder if the banks will open on Thursday.
Let me explain.
We have a maybe complicated, but probably enviable "public holiday" system.
Government holidays are divided into "Statutory Holidays" and "Public Holidays."
"Statutory Holidays" (triple pay days) are holidays that no matter what, an employee will get. It's 10 days a year. Big holiday days like 1-January, 1-May, the 3 days of Chinese New Year, etc... are Statutory Holidays. The employer MUST give the employee this holiday. If the staff has to work on these Statutory holidays, they get an extra day off and extra pay, with the extra day off and extra pay combined equivalent to a "triple pay". If a Statutory day falls on your regular day off, you get to have a "Compensation day off".
Regular public holidays are not obligatory. If it falls on your regular day off, you will not get a "compensation". You either get the day off, or if you work you get a "double pay", but you don't get the extra day off.
In my company, we just newly got the all-holidays thing (we used to only get the Statutory holidays, now we get the regular public holidays as well).
Anyway, for these 3 CNY days, as it falls on a Saturday and a Sunday, we get compensation day offs. I can use 2 days of holidays within 180 days now. Government institutions though, have the custom to get the compensation day offs immediately after. So the City is practically dead until tomorrow. I chose to work these 2 days because I like the flexibility to choose my future day offs, and going to work these 2 days is almost like not going to work anyway (not many people working anyway)
But now that the government has announced for people to not work on Thursday and Friday.... this is a dead city this week.
I need to deposit 2 cheques..... I wonder if the banks will open on Thursday.
