Dear HRians

If Sunday is your non-working day but do you know it call Rest day or Off day?

The answer is very simple, under Employment Act section 59 https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/WEBTEXT/48055/66265/E55mys01.htm#c59

“59. Rest day

(1) Every employee shall be allowed in each week a rest day of one whole day as may. be determined from time to time by the employer, and where an employee is allowed more than one rest day in a week the last of such rest days shall be the rest day for the purposes of this Part:”

Then what is the Off Day?

Based on above we can define the off day based on 5 day/week, 5 ½ day/week and 6 day/week, please refer below table

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Total
5 days/week	9	9	9	9	9	Off	Rest	45
5 ½ days/week	8	8	8	8	8	4	Rest	44
6 days/week	8	8	8	8	8	8	Rest	48

 

So, if you are work 5 days/week there are 2 day not working, based on Employment act the last day is Rest day so another day should be the Off Day