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Papua New Guinea - Working time - 2011
Employees are entitled to 14 consecutive days annual leave, including non-working days.
Employment Act 1978 §61(1)
Remarks: Where any public holiday falls within an employee's period of paid leave and is observed on a day that, in the case of that employee, would have been an ordinary working day had he not been on leave, there shall be added to that leave period one extra day being an ordinary working day, for each day of that public holiday.
Casual and piece-rate workers are not entitled to annual leave.
Further, annual leave entitlements may be varied by registered award.
Employment Act 1978 §§58, 61(1)
An employer shall pay to the employee his ordinary rate of pay for every day of recreation leave to which he is entitled.
Employment Act 1978 §62
An employer shall pay the total of the employees entitlement prior to the commencement of the recreation leave.
As of 2011, there are 9 annual public holidays in Papua New Guinea. In 2012, these reportedly fall on the following dates:
1 January - New Years Day
11 June - Queens Birthday
23 July - National Rememberance Day
26 August - National Day of Repentance
http://www.qppstudio.net/national-news-digests/papua_new_guinea-public-holidays.htm
Where an employee is in employment on a day immediately preceding a public holiday he shall, if not required to work on that holiday, be paid his usual wages for that day as if he had worked and it had not been a public holiday. However, this entitlement does not apply to casual or piece-rate employees.
Employment Act 1978 §86
Philippines - Working time - 2011
The entitlement is to 5 days leave per year.
Labor Code of the Philippines §95(a)
1995: 5 days.
The annual leave entitlement provided by the Labor Code does not apply to:
1. employees who have an equivalent entitlement under from another source,
2. employees of establishments regularly employing less than 10 employees,
3. government employees,
4. managerial employees,
5. field personnel,
6. members of the family of the employer who are dependent on him for support,
7. domestic helpers,
8. persons in the personal service of another, and
9. workers who are paid by results as determined by the Secretary of Labor in appropriate regulations.
Labor Code of the Philippines §§82, 95(b)
Remarks: Establishments may also be exempted from the annual leave obligations by the Secretary of Labor and Employment after considering the viability or financial condition of such establishment.
The leave is to be with pay.
Remarks: The Labor Code does not specify the rate at which the leave is to be paid, but in the absence of any contrary statement, it should be implied that the pay is to be the employee's regular wage as defined by §90 of the Labor Code.
The date of payment is not stipulated by the Labor Code.
There are 11 regular holidays in the Philippines, as follows:
1. New Years Day - 1 January
2. Araw ng Kagitingan - 9 April
3. Maundy Thursday - movable date (21 April 2011)
4. Good Friday - movable date (22 April 2011)
5. Labor Day - 1 May
6. Independence Day - 12 June
7. National Heroes Day - last Sunday or Monday of August (29 August 2011)
8. Bonifacio Day - 30 November
9. Eidul Fitr - movable date
11. Rizal Day - 30 December
Proclamation No. 84 Declaring the Regular Holidays etc for 2011
Memorandum Circular 01 - List of Holidays
Labor Code of the Philippines §94(c)
Omnibus Rules to Implement the Labor Code Rule IV of Book Three
Remarks: There is some discrepancy between the Proclamation declaring regular holidays for 2011 and the Labor Code, which indicates that 4 July and the day designated by law for holding a general election will also be regular holidays for the purposes of payment, and does not list National Heroes Day or Eidel Fitr as regular holidays (see §94(c) Labor Code).
It should be noted that the Philippines also allows for special non-working days, which are unpaid if the worker does not work but which are to be paid at a higher rate (an additional 30% or 50% of the employee's regular rate) if worked (see §93(c) Labor Code, Proclamation No. 84 and Memorandum Circular 01).
Labor Code of the Philippines §94(a)
Remarks: The right to payment for regular holidays does not apply to employees in retail and service establishments regularly employing less than 10 workers.
Singapore - Working time - 2011
An employee shall be entitled to paid annual leave of 7 days in respect of the first 12 months of continuous service with the same employer, and an additional one days paid annual leave for every subsequent 12 months of continuous service with the same employer, subject to a maximum of 14 days of such leave.
Employment Act §43(1)
2009: 7 days for workers being employed for at least a period of 3 months in respect of the first 12 months of continuous service. 1 additional day of leave for every subsequent 12 months of continuous service with the same employer, subject to a maximum of 14 days of annual leave. An employee who has served an employer for a period of not less than 3 months, but who has not completed 12 months of continuous service in any year, shall be entitled to annual leave in proportion to the number of completed months of service in that year. Where an employee is granted leave of absence without pay by the employer at the request of the employee, the period of the leave shall be disregarded for the purpose of computing continuous service. 7 days in respect of the first 12 months of continuous service, and one day's annual leave for every subsequent 12 months of continuous service up to 14 days (in addition to the rest days).
2007: 7 days for workers being employed for at least a period of 3 months in respect of the first 12 months of continuous service. 1 additional day of leave for every subsequent 12 months of continuous service with the same employer, subject to a maximum of 14 days of annual leave. An employee who has served an employer for a period of not less than 3 months, but who has not completed 12 months of continuous service in any year, shall be entitled to annual leave in proportion to the number of completed months of service in that year. Where an employee is granted leave of absence without pay by the employer at the request of the employee, the period of the leave shall be disregarded for the purpose of computing continuous service. 7 days in respect of the first 12 months of continuous service, and one day's annual leave for every subsequent 12 months of continuous service up to 14 days (in addition to the rest days).
An employee shall forfeit his entitlement to annual leave if he absents himself from work without the permission of the employer or without reasonable excuse for more than 20% of the working days in the months or year, as the case may be, in which his entitlement to such leave accrues.
Employment Act §43(5)
The employer shall pay the employee his gross rate of pay for every day of annual leave.
Employment Act §43(7)
Remarks: An employee's 'gross rate of pay' means the total amount of money including allowances to which the employee is entitled under his contract of service either for working for a period of time, that is, for one hour, one day, one week, one month or for such other period as may be stated or implied in his contract of service, or for each completed piece or task of work but does not include:
(e) travelling, food or housing allowances (§2 Employment Act).
No provisions specific to the regulation of pay for annual leave identified. However, all salary earned by an employee under a contract of service, other than additional payments for overtime work, shall be paid before the expiry of the 7th day after the last day of the salary period in respect of which the salary is payable.
Employment Act §21(1)
Employees are entitled to 11 public holidays under the Employment Act. In 2012, these fall on the following dates:
New Years Day - 1 January
Chinese New Year (two days) - 23 & 24 January
Good Friday - 6 April
Vesak Day - 5 May
Hari Raya Puasa - 19 August
Hari Raya Haji - 26 October
Deepavali - 13 November
Holidays Act §4 and Schedule
Every employee shall be entitled to a paid holiday at his gross rate of pay on such of the days specified in the Schedule to the Holidays Act (Cap. 126) as fall during the time that he is employed, subject to the following:
Employment Act §88(1)
Remarks: The right to payment for public holidays does not apply to employees who are on an unpaid leave of absence or who absent themselves from work on the working day immediately preceding or immediately succeeding a holiday or any day substituted therefore without the prior consent of his employer or without reasonable excuse (§88(2), (3) Employment Act).
Solomon Islands - Working time - 2011
Each worker is entitled to be given by his employer a holiday at the rate of not less than 1.25 working days for each complete calendar month of employment in an undertaking.
Labour Act and Rules Labour (Holidays, Sick Leave and Passages) Rules, §4(1)
Remarks: Where a worker taking a paid holiday travels to his home, he shall be entitled to additional holiday without pay for a period equal to the number of days necessarily spent travelling to and from his home by the route and method of travel paid for by the employer (§6 Labour (Holidays, Leave and Passages) Rules).
A worker shall be paid at the rate normally applicable to him.
Labour Act and Rules Labour (Holidays, Sick Leave and Passages) Rules at §4(2)
Remarks: In addition, a worker taking a paid holiday shall be entitled once in each calendar year to be paid by his employer the cost of return journeys made between the place of employment and the worker's home by the worker, his wife and a maximum of 4 dependent children under the age of 18 years. The employer shall decide the route and method of travel (§5 Labour (Holidays, Sick Leave and Passages) Rules).
Sri Lanka - Working time - 2011
Employees are entitled to 14 days annual leave for each year of employment (being calendar years, as defined).
Shop and Office Employees Act and Regulations §6(1), (8)
Remarks: For the purposes of the annual leave entitlement in the Shop and Office Employees Act, 'year of employment' with reference to any shop or office, shall mean:
(a) where that shop or office belongs to any class of shops or offices in respect of which the Commissioner has fixed a date under subsection (7A) of the Act - the period of twelve months reckoned from that date, and
(b) in any other case - the period of twelve months reckoned from the first day of January of each year.
In respect of the first year of employment during which any person has been continuously in employment in or about the business of any shop or office, that person shall be entitled to take and shall take:
(i) where his employment commences on or after the first day of January but before the first day of April, a holiday of fourteen days with full remuneration;
(iv) where his employment commences on or after the first day of October a holiday of four days with full remuneration,and the employer shall allow such holiday and be liable to pay such remuneration, and the employer shall allow such holiday and be liable to pay such remuneration.
Shop and Office Employees Act and Regulations §6(1)(a)
An employee is to be paid remuneration in respect of annual leave periods.
Remarks: 'Remuneration' is defined by §68(1) of the Shop and Office Employees Act to mean salary or wages, and specifically includes:
(c) such other allowance as has been prescribed.
The Shop and Office Employees Act does not specify a date of payment in respect of periods of annual leave.
The number and dates of public holidays varies from trade to trade, depending on the decision of the relevant Wages Board. However, there are 8 public holidays common across all trades Sri Lanka. These are:
(1) Thai Pongal day
(2) National day (Feb 4)
(3) Day prior to Sinhala and Tamil New Year
(4) The Sinhala and Tamil New Year day
(5) May day (May 1)
(6) The day after the Full Moon day, in the Sinhala month of Wesak
(7) Milda-un-Nabi (Prophet Mohameds Birthday)
Employees employed in or about the business of a shop or office shall also be granted a public holiday on Full Moon Poya Day, although if this falls on a weekly rest day, no additional holiday shall be granted.
Ministry of Employment and Labour Sri Lanka 2002 (excerpt) pp17 and 25
Shop and Office Employees Act and Regulations §7A
Every person employed in or about the business of a shop or office shall be allowed a holiday with full remuneration on each public holidays declared by the Minister, by Order published in the Gazette.
Shop and Office Employees Act and Regulations §7(1)
Thailand - Working time - 2011
Annual leave shall be for a period of not less than 6 working days following the employees first year of employment. In subsequent years, the employer may fix the annual vacation at more than 6 working days for an employee.
Labour Protection Act 1998 (as amended 2008) §30
For employees who have worked for less than 1 year, the employer may grant the employee an annual vacation on a pro-rata basis.
The employee shall be paid his basic pay in respect of annual leave.
Labour Protection Act 1998 (as amended 2008) §56(3)
Payment of holiday pay must be made at least once a month.
Labour Protection Act 1998 (as amended 2008) §70
An employer shall inform an employee in advance of at least 13 annual traditional holidays as prescribed by the Minister, which shall include National Labour Day. An employer shall consider fixing the traditional holidays in accordance with annual government, religious or local customary holidays.
Labour Protection Act 1998 (as amended 2008) §29
Vanuatu - Working time - 2011
Every employer shall grant to an employee who has been in continuous employment with the same employer for:
(a) a period of 1 to 6 years - annual leave on full pay at the rate of 1.25 working days per month for each year of employment; or
(b) a period of 7 to 19 years - annual leave on full pay at the rate of 1.75 working days per month for each year of employment.
Employment Act 1983 (as amended up to 2010) §29(1)
The rate of the annual leave shall be increased to 3 working days after 20 years, 4 working days after 25 years and to 6 working days after 30 years service in the same undertaking, whether continuous or not.
Employment Act 1983 (as amended up to 2010) §29(2)
Remarks: This subsection does not apply to employees in agricultural undertakings.
The employer shall pay to the employee during the annual leave remuneration at least equal to the employees average remuneration for the 12 months preceding the commencement of the leave, provided that such remuneration unless the parties otherwise agree need not include any bonuses, overtime pay, expatriation allowances or reimbursement of expenses.
Employment Act 1983 (as amended up to 2010) §31
Viet Nam - Working time - 2011
The base entitlement is to 12 days, with additional entitlements for extended service, dangerous work and youth.
Labour Code 1994 §§74, 75
Employees working in normal working conditions are entitled to 12 working days after every 12 months of employment. This entitlement increases by one additional day of leave for every five years of employment in an enterprise or with an employer.
An additional day of annual leave is also granted for each day spent travelling by car, train or boat, during the period of annual leave, in excess of 2 days.
Labour Code 1994 §§74(1)(a), 75
Decrees No. 195/1994 and 109/2002 - Detailed provisions and guidance on Work and Rest Time §9(3)
Remarks: See §§9 and 11 of Decree 195/1994 for calculation of service for the purposes of annual leave entitlements, potential extension of leave for travel time and the method of calculating untaken leave entitlements on termination and for leave entitlement for periods of service of less than 12 months.
1995: 12 working days.
Employees working in heavy, harmful or dangerous occupations or in places with harsh living conditions, and persons under the age of 18 years old, have an initial entitlement of 14 days annual leave.
Employees working in exceptionally heavy, harmful or dangerous work have an initial entitlement of 16 days annual leave.
The entitlement of the above categories of workers also increases by one additional day for:
(a) every 5 years of employment; and / or
(b) every day spent travelling by car, boat or train, during their annual leave, in excess of 2 days (return).
Labour Code 1994 §§74(1)(b), 74(1)(c), 75
Decrees No. 195/1994 and 109/2002 - Detailed provisions and guidance on Work and Rest Time §9(2), (3)
Payment must be at least equivalent to the employees wages for the leave period and may be paid in advance.
Labour Code 1994 §77
The employee is to be paid an amount equal to at least the wages for the leave days. Travel expenses and wages paid during travel shall be agreed by the parties.
Labour Code 1994 §77(1)
When taking annual leave, an employee may be paid in advance.
An employee shall be entitled to take the following 8 days as public holidays:
· Calendar New Year Holiday: one day (the first day of January of each calendar year);
· Lunar New Year Holidays: four days (the final day of the old year and the first three days of the new Lunar year);
· Victory Day: one day (the thirtieth day of April of each calendar year);
· International Labour Day: one day (the first day of May of each calendar year);
· National Day: one day (the second day of September of each calendar year).
In addition, foreign laborers who are working in enterprises and organizations of Vietnamese are allowed one day for their traditional new-year holiday and one day for their National Days (if any), all with full payment.
Labour Code 1994 §73
Decrees No. 195/1994 and 109/2002 - Detailed provisions and guidance on Work and Rest Time §8
Remarks: Where the public holidays referred to above coincide with a weekly day off, the employee shall be entitled to take the following day off also (§73 Labour Code).
The employee shall be entitled to take the day off on full pay.
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