In one of the most bizarre cases of workplace loophole exploitation, a man in Taiwan divorced and remarried the same woman four times in just 37 days, all in a bid to maximize his paid marriage leave.

Taiwanese labor law grants newlyweds eight days of paid marriage leave and the man saw an opportunity to repeatedly take advantage of the rule. Each time he married, he applied for leave, then divorced, only to remarry the same woman again. His employer, suspicious of the repeated requests, eventually refused to grant additional leave. The man took the matter to the Taipei Labor Bureau, insisting that he was legally entitled to the benefits since every marriage was valid under the law.

Surprisingly, the bureau initially sided with him, ruling that the employer had violated his labor rights by denying the leave. The case sparked nationwide debate in Taiwan about how far people can go in exploiting legal loopholes and whether labor laws need urgent reform. The incident remains one of Taiwan’s strangest examples of legal technicalities colliding with human ingenuity.