No holiday on Women's Day and no overtime pay! What exactly happened? Details attached!

Today (March 8) is International Women's Day, which is a partially announced statutory holiday. When working on statutory holidays, what everyone is most concerned about is whether there will be overtime pay. But the latest news is that there will be no holiday on Women’s Day and no overtime pay! What exactly happened? The details are as follows:

1. There will be no holiday on Women's Day and no overtime pay! What exactly happened?

There is no holiday on International Women's Day and no overtime pay in accordance with the provisions of the State Council's "Regulations on National Holidays and Memorial Days" (State Council Order No. 270) on Women's Day, Youth Day and other citizen holidays. During the holidays when some citizens have holidays, the unit should pay wages to employees who participate in social or unit-organized celebrations and work as usual, but no overtime pay is required. Therefore, if you have to go to work on Women's Day but do not take a half-day off, companies and units do not have to pay you overtime pay.

However, it should be noted that if the holiday happens to fall on a Saturday or Sunday, and the unit arranges employees to work overtime, it should pay overtime wages for the rest day in accordance with the law.

2. Latest regulations on the 2022 International Women's Day holiday

1. The basis for the March 8th Women's Day holiday policy:

According to Article 3 of the "Decision of the State Council on Amending the National Holidays and Memorial Days Holidays Regulations" (revised for the third time) on December 11, 2013, March 8th Women's Day is a holiday for some citizens. Therefore, on March 8th Women's Day in 2022, all women over the age of 18 will have a half-day holiday.

2. The basis for the March 8th Women's Day holiday policy:

According to the document "Labor and Social Security Department Letter [2000] No. 18", during the holidays when some citizens have holidays, the unit should pay wages to employees who participate in celebrations organized by society or the unit and go to work as usual, but no overtime pay. If the holiday happens to fall on a Saturday or Sunday and the unit arranges overtime work for employees, it should pay overtime wages for the rest day in accordance with the law. Employers have no legal obligation to provide Women's Day benefits, but if there is an agreement in the collective contract or labor contract, or there are regulations in the rules and regulations, it should be handled in accordance with such agreement and regulations.

In addition, whether March 8, 2022 will be a holiday depends on the regulations of the company or unit. Some companies will arrange gifts for women on this day and give half a day off, some companies will just give a whole day off, and some companies will not give any holiday at all.

In general, there will be no holiday on Women's Day and no overtime pay, so if you have to go to work on March 8, the company does not have to pay you overtime pay.