Does It Know Public Holidays and Make-Up Days? | HourStamp
Frequently asked questions
- Does HourStamp know Chinese public holidays?
- Yes — the official mainland China schedule is built in, alongside calendars for 44 regions in total covering 2024–2027.
- What about Taiwan's labour holidays and make-up workdays?
- Those are included, including their make-up days. Multipliers can be tiered by hour where the law says so, as in Taiwan's Labor Standards Act.
- Does HourStamp tell me what I am owed?
- No. Every amount is an estimate for personal record keeping, not a wage determination or legal advice. What it gives you is the calculation, visible enough to check.
- Are the multipliers automatic?
- Hourly basis, cycle dates and multipliers stay visible in the estimate, so you can see how a figure was reached rather than being handed a total.
The short answer
Calculating what you earned is mostly arithmetic; knowing which days count as work is not. That is what the holiday calendar does: statutory holidays for 44 regions covering 2024–2027, including the official mainland China schedule and Taiwan's labour holidays with their make-up days.
The make-up days are the part that catches people out. Taiwan's calendar includes weekdays that are nominally holidays being designated as working days to make up a long weekend, and a tool that does not model them will miscount a month.
Tiered multipliers
Where the law distinguishes hours within a day, HourStamp lets the multiplier be tiered by hour, as Taiwan's Labor Standards Act does. A flat rate applied to the whole day gets such a case wrong in a specific, hard-to-notice way.
What the estimate is
Worth being precise, because this is where a timesheet can be over-read: every amount is an estimate for personal record keeping, not a wage determination or legal advice.
What HourStamp gives you is a calculation you can inspect — hourly basis, cycle dates and multipliers stay visible. That is the point: a number you can check is worth more than a total you have to trust.