Annual paid leave

20 days of annual paid leave are granted each fiscal year (FY) on the condition that you have worked at least 80% of the previous work year, except for the first year of employment. The number of days of annual paid leave depends on the month in which you started work as shown in the table below. Unused annual paid leave can be carried over and is effective for 3 years. (For example: Unused annual paid leave from FY2017 can be carried over to FY2018 and FY2019, then it will expire on March 31, 2020.)

Notes:

• Fiscal year in Japan: April 1 to March 31 of the following year.
• 5 days of annual paid leave must be taken every fiscal year (Based on the “Act on the arrangement of Relayed Acts to Promote Work Style Reform”.)
• There is no cash compensation for annual paid leave, and no sick leave.

Month of Employment	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Annual paid leave days	20	18	17	15	13	12	10	8	7	5	3	2

 

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Work-Life Balance holidays

7 days are usually granted, and must be used between July 1 and the end of March (of the following year). Unused work-life balance holidays cannot be carried over to the next year. The number of Work-Life Balance holidays depends on the month in which you started work. This has been newly introduced and is effective for the 2019 fiscal year, please see the table below.

Date of hire or return to work	July 1 to Aug 15	Aug 16 to Sept 30	Oct 1 to Nov 15	Nov 16 to Dec 31	Jan 1 to Feb 15	Feb 16 to Mar 31
WLB holidays	7 days	6 days	5 days	4 days	2 days	1 day

Notes: Contract period must be for more than six (6) months.

 

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Special paid leave

Special paid leave is granted as shown in the following table.

Reason	Maximum number of special paid leave days (work days)
When the employee gets married	Five (5) consecutive days maximum
When the employee’s child gets married	Two (2) consecutive days maximum
When the employee’s sibling gets married	One (1) day
When the employee’s parent, spouse (including the employee’s partner in a de facto spousal relationship; hereinafter the same definition of spouse applies throughout) or child dies	When the employee organizes the funeral: Seven (7) consecutive days maximum For other cases: Four (4) consecutive days maximum
When the employee’s grandparent, sibling or the parent of the employee’s spouse dies	When the employee organizes the funeral: Four (4) consecutive days maximum For other cases: Three (3) consecutive days maximum
When another relative within three degrees of relationship (excluding the employee’s parent, spouse, child, grandparent, sibling and the parent of the employee’s spouse) dies	When the employee organizes the funeral: Two (2) consecutive days maximum For other cases: One (1) day
When the employee’s spouse gives birth	Three (3) consecutive days maximum
When the employee will be taking care of his own child(ren) or when he needs to provide nursing care for his wife in the period between 6 weeks before and 8 weeks after she gives birth	Five (5) days maximum
When the employee’s pre- or early elementary school age child needs nursing care (when the child is injured or sick or when the child needs to be vaccinated or undergo a health check)	Five (5) days maximum per fiscal year (If there are 2 or more children of pre- or early elementary school age, 10 days maximum)
When the employee needs to provide nursing or other care for a family member	Five (5) days maximum per fiscal year (If there are 2 or more family members requiring care, 10 days maximum)
When the employee is ordered to transfer and the transfer involves a change of domicile	Five (5) consecutive days maximum
When the employee is ordered to transfer and dependent family members will be moving to the employee’s domicile at a later date	Three (3) consecutive days maximum
When the employee engages voluntarily and without remuneration in any of the following activities which benefit society at large (excluding activities which support the employee’s relatives), and when the employee’s absence from work is deemed to be justified: The employee volunteers in disaster relief activities The employee participates in activities, as separately specified by the President of RIKEN, at facilities which provide special care for physically disabled; elderly; physically or mentally disabled or other individuals who are injured or ill In addition to the activities defined in subparagraphs a. and b, activities for providing nursing care and other daily support to individuals who are permanently handicapped due to a physical or mental disability, injury or disease	Five (5) days maximum per fiscal year
When the employee has applied to an organization for registration as a bone marrow donor for transplant purposes and absence from work is deemed unavoidable for tests or hospitalization and the like, or when the employee provides bone marrow to any person excluding the employee’s spouse, parent, child or sibling for transplant purposes, and absence from work is deemed unavoidable for tests or hospitalization and the like	Number of days required
When the employee must serve as a citizen judge, witness, expert witness, or unsworn witness in a court of law, the national Diet, or a regional municipal assembly, and absence from work is considered unavoidable	Number of days required
When there is a disaster or other emergency	Number of days required
When the employee meeting the following criteria requires time to search for new employment: An employee whose contract specifies that there will be no renewal after the termination of the original contract An employee whose contract will clearly not be renewed due to the employer’s circumstances	Maximum of Five (5) days within the period of the employee’s contract (or within the last year for an employee whose contract spans several years)

(Article 28, Fixed-term Employee Work Regulations)

 

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Observed holidays

• All Official National Public Holidays of Japan
  RIKEN observes all National Holidays. Please check each calendar year.
  
  

• RIKEN foundation day
  The 4^th Monday in October
  
  

• New Year Holidays
  Dec. 29^th to Jan. 3.