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| Day | Date | Holiday | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | Jan-01 | New Year's Day | Gantan | 01/01/2019 |
| Monday | Jan-14 | Coming-of-age Day | Seijin no Hi. 2nd Monday of January | 14/01/2019 |
| Monday | Feb-11 | National Foundation Day | 11/02/2019 | |
| Thursday | Mar-21 | Vernal Equinox Day | March 20 or March 21 | 21/03/2019 |
| Monday | Apr-29 | Showa Day | Part of Golden Week | 29/04/2019 |
| Friday | May-03 | Constitution Memorial Day | Part of Golden Week | 03/05/2019 |
| Saturday | May-04 | Greenery Day | Part of Golden Week | 04/05/2019 |
| Sunday | May-05 | Children's Day | Kodomo no Hi. Part of Golden Week | 05/05/2019 |
| Monday | May-06 | Children's Day (observed) | Kodomo no Hi. Part of Golden Week | 06/05/2019 |
| Monday | Jul-15 | Marine Day | Umi no Hi. 3rd Monday of July | 15/07/2019 |
| Sunday | Aug-11 | Mountain Day | August 11 or following Monday if it falls on a Sunday | 11/08/2019 |
| Monday | Aug-12 | Mountain Day (observed) | August 11 or following Monday if it falls on a Sunday | 12/08/2019 |
| Monday | Sep-16 | Respect for the Aged Day | Keiro no Hi. 3rd Monday of September | 16/09/2019 |
| Monday | Sep-23 | Autumnal Equinox Day | September 23 or September 24 | 23/09/2019 |
| Monday | Oct-14 | Health-Sports Day | Taiiku no Hi. 2nd Monday of October | 14/10/2019 |
| Sunday | Nov-03 | Culture Day | November 3 or following Monday if it falls on a Sunday | 03/11/2019 |
| Monday | Nov-04 | Culture Day (observed) | November 3 or following Monday if it falls on a Sunday | 04/11/2019 |
| Saturday | Nov-23 | Labour Thanksgiving Day | November 23 or following Monday if it falls on a Sunday | 23/11/2019 |
With the exception of New Year's Day, if a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following day is treated as a holiday instead.
If Respect for the aged day falls on 21 September and Autumnal Equinox falls in 23 September, then 22 September is declared a holiday - creating 'Silver Week'.
| Day | Date | Holiday | Notes |
|---|
With the exception of New Year's Day, if a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following day is treated as a holiday instead.
If Respect for the aged day falls on 21 September and Autumnal Equinox falls in 23 September, then 22 September is declared a holiday - creating 'Silver Week'.
| Day | Date | Holiday | Notes |
|---|
With the exception of New Year's Day, if a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following day is treated as a holiday instead.
If Respect for the aged day falls on 21 September and Autumnal Equinox falls in 23 September, then 22 September is declared a holiday - creating 'Silver Week'.
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848 JPY hourly
Full time working is considered to be 40 hours weekly, and 8 hours daily.
Wages during overtime hours must be paid at 125%-150% of regulaer wages. There is no statue on number of ovetime hours worked
Employee monthly contribution is 16,340 JYP from April 2018-March 2019
Residence tax is levied on the individual the following year based on the previous years income and deducted on a monthly basis. Thus it will begin to be levied from second calendar year in Japan and will be based on the previous years income at about 10%.
Social security in Japan inlucdes health insurance, nursing care insurnace, pension insurance, employment insurance and workmens accident compensation insurance.
Under Japanese labor law termination of full-time employees is difficult. Should they not want to leave, employees may dispute and proceed with negotiations generally leading to compensation in the sum of a minimum of one-month salary per year worked. Prior to dissmissal 30 days notice is required.
Advance notice is one month.
No legal requirement unelss inadiquet notice was provided and payment is required in leiu.
No legal requirement for first 6 months, following employees are entitled to 10 days. In the folowing two years one day is added per year. From the 3rd year, workers are entitled to an additional 2 days each year until reaching 20.
There is no offical regulation.
Expecting mothers are entitled to 14 weeks unpaid maternity leave, 6 weeks before birth and 8 weeks after. Upon request and doctors approval workers can return after 6 weeks.
See parental leave.
Until the childs first birthday mothers and fathers may leave to care for their child.
Unpaid leave to care for a spouse, child, parent or grand parent for up to 3 months.
Salaries are paid on a monthly basis. Payday is the 25th of every month.
5% standard rate.
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