PricewaterhouseCoopers – China and Hong Kong – 12 days holiday in the coming months, eight unpaid

More auditors in Hong Kong can expect to be taking extra-long holidays, courtesy of the city’s sluggish IPO market.

This week, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that to help avoid layoffs, employees in mainland China and Hong Kong will be offered a chance to take an additional 12 days’ holiday in the coming months, of which eight of them will be unpaid. The company is also launching a “voluntary career break” program, which allows such staff to take extended holidays ranging between two weeks and six months, during which they are paid 20% of their regular salary…

via ‘Voluntary Career Break’ For Hong Kong Workers – China Real Time Report – WSJ.