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MALAYSIA

Employment Ordinance, 1955

Section 60D

(1)

Every employee shall be entitled to a paid holiday at his ordinary rate of pay on seven gazetted Public Holidays in any one calendar year, three of which shall be national or State holidays:

་ Provided that by agreement between the employer and the employee any other day or days may be substituted for any one or more of the days as stated above:

And provided further that if any of the days specified above should fall on a rest day the working day following immediately there- after shall be a paid holiday in substitution therefor.

(2)

An employee who absents himself from work on the working day immediately preceding or immediately succeeding a holiday or any day substituted therefor under subsection (1) without the prior consent of his employer or without reasonable excuse shall not be entitled to any holiday pay for hat holiday.

THE PHILIPPINES

Labour Code (Third Edition, 1977)

Article 94 Right to holiday pay

(a)

Every worker shall be paid his regular daily wage during regular holidays, except in retail and service establishments regularly employing less than ten (10) workers;

(6)

(c)

As used in this Article, "holiday" includes New Year's Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, the ninth of April, the first of May, the twelfth of June, the fourth of July, the thirtieth of November, the twenty-fifth and the thirtieth of Docomber, and the day designated by law for holding a general election.

SINGAPORE

Employment Act, 1968

Section 41

(1)

Every employee shall be entitled to a paid holiday at his ordinary rate of pay on such of the days specified in the Schedule to the Holidays Act, 1967, as fall during the time that he is employed:

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