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Q: Are Chinese holidays sneakily timed so workers' pays are docked?
Most of the Chinese people I know earn a salary based on how many days they come into work. Take that into consideration and last month we had the 2 week CNY holiday, soon we've got the Tombsweeping holiday, then the May 1st holiday all in consecutive months. Am I just seeing things or are these holidays designed so companies/officials make savings on worker's wages?
13 years 24 weeks ago in Money & Banking - China
As I understand it the public holidays are paid holidays by Chinese law. So if their contract says they must work 25 days a month and there is one days public holiday, that month they only need to work 24.
What hisses a lot off is the 'extra days' are usually tied to working a weekend before or after a holiday which often leads to a situation where to get 3 days off they have to work 12 days straight.
Nessquick:
Yes, I hate this system, give us free weekend just for only to work 10 or more days in a row :(
I think employers tend to add extra days of work. Many seem to include a substitution day for the public holiday as well.
they are still paid their full salary. many workers actually got about a week off for cny. and they had to work every weekend to make up for it.
Scandinavian:
so they get their full pay for putting in the full amount of hours, that equals they have gotten no time off, just had a reshuffle of their working time. it's a scam to make people believe they get freedom
