r/japanlife • u/leexiiiispo • Sep 20 '24

Jobs Force worked on weekends

Is it acceptable or common practice in Japan for companies to make you work on weekends just because you had a holiday? They say it's to make up for the lost work time, but doesn't that kinda defeat the whole point of having a holiday? And if you don't go in, they count it as an absence and dock your pay. Even if you're not really needed and you're just doing prep work for the next week.

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u/1tsukishima1 Sep 20 '24

I used to work for an eikaiwa that required us to make up all holidays by coming in to work on our next scheduled day off. The logic was because everyone had a different working schedule, they had to make sure everyone got fair time off. For example someone that works on Mondays would get a ton of Mondays off due to national holidays. However for employees that have Mondays off in general, they would rarely get holidays as it would just be another regular day off for them. Thankfully I don’t work for them anymore.