Gregorian calendar for March 2025
What are details of the Gregorian calendar for March 2025?
March 2025 begins on March 1, 2025 (February 2, 2025 in the lunar calendar) and ends on March 31, 2025 (March 3, 2025 in the lunar calendar).
Additionally, March 2025 includes the following holidays:
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 1)
- Traditional Day of Border Guards (March 3)
- International Women’s Day (March 8)
- White Day (March 14)
- International Day of Happiness (March 20)
- World Poetry Day (March 21)
- International Day of Forests (March 21)
- World Water Day (March 22)
- World Tuberculosis Day (March 24)
- Establishment of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (March 26)
- Vietnam Sports Day (March 27)
- Establishment of the National Militia and Self-Defense Force (March 28)
Gregorian calendar for March 2025 (Image from the Internet)
Does March 2025 include any public holidays for which employees in Vietnam are entitled to paid leave?
Based on Article 112 of the 2019 Labor Code on holidays:
Article 112. Public and New Year Holidays
- Employees are entitled to paid leave on the following occasions:
a) New Year's Day: 1 day (January 1 Gregorian calendar);
b) Lunar New Year: 5 days;
c) Victory Day: 1 day (April 30 Gregorian calendar);
d) International Labor Day: 1 day (May 1 Gregorian calendar);
dd) National Day: 2 days (September 2 Gregorian calendar and 1 adjacent day before or after);
e) Hung Kings' Commemoration Day: 1 day (March 10 lunar calendar).
Foreign employees in Vietnam, in addition to the holidays prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article, are entitled to one traditional national day and one national day of their country.
Annually, based on actual conditions, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam decides the specific days off stipulated in points b and đ of Clause 1 of this Article.
According to the above regulations, employees are entitled to paid leave on the following days:
- New Year's Day
- Lunar New Year
- Victory Day
- International Labor Day
- National Day
- Hung Kings' Commemoration Day
Additionally, foreign employees in Vietnam are also entitled to a day off for their traditional national day and their country's national day.
Thus, in lunar March 2025, employees will have a paid leave day on Hung Kings' Commemoration Day (March 10 in the lunar calendar).
How many annual leave days do employees in heavy, toxic, and hazardous occupations in Vietnam have?
Based on Article 113 of the 2019 Labor Code on annual leave:
Article 113. Annual Leave
- Employees who have worked for 12 months for one employer are entitled to annual leave with full pay under the employment contract as follows:
a) 12 working days for those working in normal conditions;
b) 14 working days for minors, disabled employees, employees in strenuous, toxic, or dangerous jobs;
c) 16 working days for employees in specially strenuous, toxic, or dangerous jobs.
Employees who have worked for less than 12 months for an employer shall have annual leave days based proportionately to their months of employment.
In case of termination, job loss, or if annual leave is not taken or fully taken, the employer shall pay wages for the unused days.
Employers are responsible for establishing the annual leave schedule after consulting employees and must announce it in advance. Employees may negotiate with employers to take annual leave in multiple times or accumulate up to three years once.
When taking annual leave not coinciding with the salary payment period, employees are entitled to advance payment of salary as per Clause 3, Article 101 of this code.
If traveling by land, rail, or water transportation takes more than two days round trip, employees are entitled to additional travel time from the third day on, aside from annual leave, and only counted once per year.
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According to these regulations, employees in strenuous, toxic, or dangerous jobs who have worked for 12 months for an employer are entitled to 14 days of annual leave.
After 5 years of working for one employer, the employee's annual leave shall be increased by one day. (Regulation at Article 114 of the 2019 Labor Code)
