Micah Sittig notes that the Chinese government has suddenly decided to ask people to work on the weekend of December 30-31. But they will get days off on January 2-3 to compensate for this (New Year’s Day is already an official holiday). This is causing travel agencies a big headache, because they planned for people to have Dec. 30-Jan. 1 off…

I think that many companies (including Spill Group Asia) will give the staff the weekend of Dec. 30-31 off anyway, and ask the staff to report back to work on Jan. 2. But I am actually not sure if this is allowed. Is the government vacation schedule something every company has to implement, or is it only for government employees and state-owned enterprises?