Number of days off for employees when relatives get married
Employees are entitled to take a day off when their family members are married, according to the provisions of the 2019 Labor Code.
Article 115 of the 2019 Labor Code stipulates private leave and unpaid leave as follows:
1. Employees are entitled to take a personal leave but still receive full pay and must notify the employer in the following cases:
a) Marriage: 3 days off;
b) Married children and adopted children: 1 day off;
c) Biological father, biological mother, adoptive father, adoptive mother; biological father, adoptive mother, adoptive father, adoptive mother of the wife or husband; wife or husband; biological child, adopted child: 3 days off.
2. Employees are entitled to take a day's unpaid leave and must notify the employer when their grandfather, grandmother, paternal grandfather, maternal grandmother, brother, sister, younger brother die; father or mother are married; brother, sister, younger brother are married.
3. In addition to the provisions in Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article, employees may agree with the employer to take unpaid leave.
Thus, employees are entitled to a full-time salary of 1 day's leave when their children are born or adopted and get married; a day's leave without salary when their father or mother, brother, sister, or younger brother are married. In these cases, employees must notify the employer.
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