HOLIDAY LEAVE, PERSONAL LEAVE AND LEAVE WITHOUT PAY

Holiday and Tet leave

1. An employee shall be entitled to have days off fully paid on the following public holidays:

a) Calendar New Year Holiday: one day (the first day of January of each calendar year);

b) Lunar New Year Holidays: Five days

c) Victory Day: 01 day (the 30th of April of each calendar year);

d) International Labor Day: one day (the first day of May of each calendar year);

dd) National Day: 01 day (the second day of September of each calendar year).

e) Hung Kings Commemoration Day (the 10th of March of each Lunar year)

2. The employees who are foreign citizens working in Vietnam, besides the holidays as prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article, they also take an additional day of traditional Tet and 01 day of their country’s National Day.

3. Where the public holidays as prescribed in clause 1 of this Article coincide with a weekly days- off, the employee shall be entitled to take the succeeding compensatory days-off instead.

Personal leave and leave without Pay

1. An employee may take leave for personal reasons but fully paid in the following cases:

a) Marriage: 03 days;

b) Marriage of his children: 01 day;

c) Death of natural parents, wife or husband’s parents, wife or husband or child: 03 days.

2. An employee may take 01 day leaves unpaid and must notify the employer when his grandparents, natural brother and sister dies; parent or mother gets married; natural brother and sister gets married.

3. In addition to the provisions of Clause 1 and Clause 2 of this Article, the employee may agree with the employer to take unpaid leave.