Do civil servants have to take 2.5 days off?

Taking 2.5 days off a week is not only the welfare of civil servants.

In August of 20 15, the State Council's "Several Opinions on Further Promoting Tourism Investment and Consumption" proposed that places and units with conditions can optimize and adjust their summer work and rest arrangements according to the actual situation, creating favorable conditions for employees to go out for leisure and vacation on Friday afternoons and weekends.

After the publication of the above-mentioned documents, Peng Decheng, one of the drafters of the documents and an official of the National Tourism Administration, once explained: "Flexible working hours require that the working hours on Friday afternoons be arranged on other working days in advance under the premise of complying with the national laws and regulations of 40 hours per week ... instead of shortening the legal working hours per week, the holiday on Friday afternoons should be arranged directly."

In other words, flexible working hours are not 36 hours.

The person in charge of the State Council pointed out: "the State Council has clear regulations on the working hours of employees, so we can't directly arrange the working hours on Friday afternoon to other working days. For those who include the rest time on Friday afternoon in the paid annual leave, they should also consider the government work, production and operation of enterprises and the interests of employees according to the actual situation, and cannot simply deduct it from the annual leave or legal holidays regardless of the actual situation. "