Taking Leave - Regular Holidays rules part 3
Can you take paid leave when you want? Or does the company have a right to tell you when to take it? My understanding is that in principle you can take the leave when and how you want, so long as you give your company sufficient notice. Usually, to say it one month before is considered ok.
That said, there is a provision in the law that allows your company to postpone scheduled leave in times of hardship or difficulty for the firm. The question is whether or not a postponement would be seen as being reasonable or not, and I guess that is a question you’d have to take to the courts if push came to shove.
There is an old story of the japanese worker who works all the time and get s really exhausted. Many might have thought it s because of the working system ’s harshness in Japan, but today this has all changed, except the Japanese Mind.
I don't know of many companies that prevent employees from taking holidays; it's a pretty fundamental right. The problem is usually the other way around, where traditionally minded Japanese staff don't take the holidays owed them out of a feeling of duty to the company. Pressured managers in particular let their yearly leave allocations slide and expire. This obviously isn't good for one's mental health or family relationships and senior management need to be ready to persuade such valuable employees to take time off for their own good.
Next week we cover less common types of paid leave.
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