In Japan, paid leave (年次有給休暇, yukyu) is granted on a day most workers never learn: six months after you start, then once a year. Each grant can be used for two years and then it is gone, and your employer does not have to pay for days you did not take. Your employer must also make sure you take at least five days of every grant of ten days or more. Few payslips show the balance, so most people find out when the days are already lost.
So Japan Life Hub now has a paid leave book.
What you hold today
Enter the day you were hired and how many days a week you work. The book counts each grant by the Labour Standards Act, including the smaller table for part-timers, then says how many days you hold today, which days lapse next and on what date, and when the next grant comes.
Each grant, and the five days
Add each day off, a half day too. The book takes it from your oldest grant first and shows every grant with what is used, what is left and its last day. When a grant year ended with fewer than five days taken, it says so and names the office you can ask.
In Japanese, for your manager
For each day off there is a sentence to ask for it, one to ask for your balance on the company's register, and one to use your days before your last day of work. The dates go into your phone's calendar as a file.
The book is free, needs no account, stays in your browser and works in seven languages.
