Question 53: Pursuant to Article 110 of the Labor Code, Employees are entitled to take a rest of 24 hours per week as a minimum. If Employees cannot take a rest weekly due to the labour cycle, Employers must ensure that Employees have a rest of at least 4 days/month on average. As such, may Employers add 4 days of this month to 4 days of the next month? Or if Employers cannot arrange for Employees to take a rest due to business demands, can they pay Employees for the 4 rest days? If it is allowed by law, can Employers pay for these rest days using the salary level?
Labour law does not have any regulations allowing Employers to add the 4 weekly rest days of this month (Employees cannot take these rest days due to business demands) to the next month. Besides, the purpose of the weekly rest days, as defined by labour law, is to help Employees recover their working abilities to…