What are details of the October of the Lunar Calendar in 2024? Are employees in Vietnam entitled to any fully paid day off in the October of the Lunar Calendar in 2024?
What are details of the October of the Lunar Calendar in 2024?
The lunar calendar (or lunisolar calendar) is a system of calendar based on the cycles of the Moon and is commonly used in many Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan (historically).
The lunar calendar is very important in cultural and religious activities, especially in calculating holidays, ancestor worship days, and wedding dates in East Asian countries. For example, the Lunar New Year - the first day of the lunar calendar year - is the most significant holiday of the year for Vietnamese people.
Viewing the lunar calendar for October 2024 in full detail:
The lunar calendar for October 2024 begins from lunar October 1 and extends to lunar October 30. The first day of the lunar October falls on November 1, 2024, in the solar calendar and ends on lunar October 30, which corresponds to November 30, 2024, in the solar calendar.
What are details of the October of the Lunar Calendar in 2024? Are employees in Vietnam entitled to any fully paid day off in the October of the Lunar Calendar in 2024? (Image from Internet)
Are employees in Vietnam entitled to any fully paid day off in the October of the Lunar Calendar in 2024?
Pursuant to Article 112 of the Labor Code 2019 regarding holidays:
Article 112. Holidays
- Employees shall be entitled to a full paid day off on the following holidays:
a) New Year's Day: 1 day (January 1 of the solar calendar);
b) Lunar New Year: 5 days;
c) Victory Day: 1 day (April 30 of the solar calendar);
d) International Labor Day: 1 day (May 1 of the solar calendar);
e) National Day: 2 days (September 2 of the solar calendar and 1 contiguous day before or after);
f) Hung Kings Commemoration Day: 1 day (March 10 of the lunar calendar).
- Foreign employees working in Vietnam are entitled to additional 1 traditional Vietnamese Tet holiday and 1 national day of their country besides the holidays prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article.
- Annually, based on actual conditions, the Prime Minister of Vietnam decides the specific leave days prescribed at points b and e of Clause 1 of this Article.
According to the regulations, employees are entitled to a full paid day off on the following holidays:
- New Year's Day
- Lunar New Year
- Victory Day
- International Labor Day
- National Day
- Hung Kings Commemoration Day
Moreover, foreign employees working in Vietnam are entitled to an additional day for their national traditional Tet holiday and a national day of their country.
Thus, in October lunar 2024, employees do not have any paid days off.
How many annual leave days are available for employees who have not worked for 12 months in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 113 of the Labor Code 2019 regarding annual leave:
Article 113. Annual leave
- Employees who have worked for a full 12 months for an employer shall be entitled to annual leave, enjoying full salary according to their labor contract as follows:
a) 12 working days for employees working under normal conditions;
b) 14 working days for minor employees, employees with disabilities, employees working in heavy, hazardous, or dangerous industries;
c) 16 working days for employees in special heavy, hazardous, or dangerous industries.
- Employees working for less than 12 months for an employer shall be entitled to annual leave in proportion to the number of months worked.
- In case of job termination or job loss without having taken or fully taken annual leave days, the employer shall pay an allowance for the untaken leave days.
- Employers are responsible for arranging annual leave schedules after consulting employees and must inform employees in advance. Employees may agree with their employer to take annual leave in separate instances or accumulatively once every 3 years maximum.
- If annual leave occurs not at salary payment time, employees shall receive an advance salary payment as prescribed in Clause 3, Article 101 of this Code.
- If annual leave involves traveling via road, railway, or waterway where the total travel days exceed 2 days, from the third day onward, additional travel days shall be granted beyond annual leave and counted only for 1 leave instance in the year.
- The Government of Vietnam shall detail this Article.
According to the above regulations, employees who have not worked for 12 months for an employer shall be entitled to annual leave in proportion to the number of months worked.
