According to the announcement of the Minister of Home Affairs, civil servants and public employees are entitled to 2 days off according to regulations during the National Day holiday, including September 2nd and 1 day immediately before, September 1st.
The whole country also implemented switching from the second working day, August 31, to the weekly holiday Saturday, August 22.
Thus, along with weekly holidays and holidays, officials and civil servants are entitled to 5 consecutive days off on this occasion.
For workers in the business sector, on National Day holiday, they will be off on Wednesday, September 2, and choose to be off for 1 of 2 days: Tuesday, September 1, or Thursday, September 3.
The Minister of Home Affairs shall notify administrative agencies, non-business units, political organizations, socio-political organizations and businesses, and employees according to regulations.
Agencies and units arrange and arrange on-duty departments according to regulations and work reasonably to solve work continuously, ensuring service to the people.
Businesses must notify employees of the 2026 National Day holiday plan at least 30 days before implementation.
If the weekly holiday coincides with the holiday and Tet holiday specified in Clause 1, Article 112 of the Labor Code, the employer shall arrange for compensatory weekly holiday for the employee on the next working day according to the provisions of Clause 3, Article 111 of the Labor Code.
The Ministry of Home Affairs also encourages employers to apply the 2026 National Day holiday for employees as a plan for civil servants and public employees, and at the same time encourages more beneficial agreements for employees.
According to the provisions of point a, clause 2, Article 107 of the 2019 Labor Code and clause 1, Article 59 of Decree 145/2020/ND-CP, enterprises wishing to use employees to work overtime on holidays and Tet must have the consent of the employee (except for some cases where the company is assigned to work overtime without the employee's consent as prescribed in Article 108 of the 2019 Labor Code).
Regarding the overtime salary level, according to the provisions of Article 98 of the 2019 Labor Code, employees who work overtime during holidays and Tet during the day are paid at least 300% excluding the holiday salary for employees receiving daily wages.
Workers going to work on holidays and Tet holidays are paid a salary of at least 300% excluding the salary on holidays, Tet holidays, and paid holidays for workers receiving daily wages.
At the same time, if employees work at night and work overtime at night, they will be paid at least 30% of the salary calculated according to the salary unit price, 20% of the salary calculated according to the salary unit price or salary according to the work done during the day of normal working days or weekly holidays or holidays, Tet holidays.
