Many of us have made up excuses to get off work. But one man in Taiwan took it to the extreme and frankly, quite ingenious. He got extended paid leave from work by getting married four times and divorced three times in just 37 days.
According to a law in Taiwan, a person has the right to 8 days of paid work leave when they get married. This clerk got married last year on April 6 which means he got exactly that. However, on the last day of his 8-day leave, the man divorced his wife, only to marry her again the next day and ask for another paid leave. He went on to marry the same woman four times, and divorce her three times in 37 days, for a total of 32 days of paid leave.
However, things didn’t go as smoothly. The bank he worked at figuring out his scheme. So his employer refused his leave application for another eight days. But that didn’t sit too well with him.
The bank clerk resort to file a complaint against his employer at the Taipei City Labour Bureau, accusing the bank of breaking the law by not abiding by Article 2 of the ‘Labour Leave Rules’ – arguing that he deserved that 32 days paid leave.
The Labour Bureau launched an investigation into the matter ruled that the bank had indeed violated the Labor Law. The bureau fined the bank NT$20,000 (RM2,904) in October of last year. But the bank also launched an appeal which claimed that it is the employee’s ‘malicious abuse of marriage leave’.
However, on April 10, the Beishi Labour Bureau upheld the previous ruling.
The case went viral on social media, sparking a heated debate about the loophole in labor legislation. Some accused the clerk of being unreasonable. Some actually confirmed that the law does allow anyone to pull off the same stunt as detailed above, but until last year, no one had actually done it.
Source: Oddity Central