Draft amendments to the Labor Code are expected to take effect on January 1, 2021. One of the noteworthy contents in this draft is the regulation that supplements cases in which employees are entitled to personal leave while still receiving their full salary.
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To be specific, according to this Draft, employees are entitled to personal leave with full pay and must notify their employer in the following cases:
- Marriage: 3 days off;
- Child's marriage: 1 day off;
- Death of biological father, biological mother, adoptive father, adoptive mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, or father, mother of one's spouse; death of spouse; death of child: 3 days off.
Therefore, it can be seen that the Draft has added two more cases where employees are entitled to personal leave with full pay, specifically in the cases of the death of an adoptive father or adoptive mother. At the same time, the Draft also requires employees to notify their employer in these personal leave cases as per the regulations. (Currently, there is no requirement to notify the employer in these cases).
Additionally, continuing to inherit the provisions of the Labor Code 2012, the Draft also stipulates that employees are entitled to 1 day of unpaid leave and must notify their employer when their paternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, maternal grandfather, maternal grandmother, sibling dies; father or mother remarries; or sibling gets married.
Nguyen Trinh
