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anonymous
Q: did you get paid for cny?
CNY is a forced holiday but we should still get paid right?
10 years 11 weeks ago in Money & Banking - China
It depends on your contract. Does it say that you'll get paid? Some schools do, some pay half, some don't. You should have negotiated this when you signed the contract.
I got paid, but the holiday comes off my annual entitlement so I now only have about 2 weeks holiday left for the next 10 months. And that 2 weeks includes the National holidays 
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I remember an article I read saying that China did not do too well in the world rankings for vacation time. I just done a quick google for the article, but can't find it.
Hotwater:
By the wonders of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_employment_leave_by_country
China is one of the worst for annual holiday entitlement - 5 days excluding public holidays (of which there are, from memory, about 11). So if it is in your contract that you are paid for public holidays then you get 16 days per year. There are a lot of countries who give a similar low amount.
You know the worst one for legal minimum requirement for paid holidays? The good old USA....minimum legal requirement for paid holidays is ZERO. Though I believe the general standard there is 10 days.
ScotsAlan:
My Google search did pick up the USA holiday thing...... but I was too scared to post that here 
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I can't remember the specific article I was looking for, but I remember there was a response to it in China Daily a few days later. Something to do with the ranking method was wrong, and when the rankings were recalculated using the Chinese method, China came out in the top 5. This was about 2 years ago.
Hotwater:
The way the Chinese calculated it to look good was that they also claimed that weekends were holidays so they totaled it (from memory) as 115 days holiday a year! Pure bull but funny how they spun it 
Why can't people learn to read their contracts? If your contracts states "paid holidays" then you should be paid.
