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In the UK, if Christmas or New Year falls on a weekend, a seperate equivalent holiday is made during the week to compensate.
Wait, do other countries not do this? So if a public holiday falls on a Saturday it doesn't get pushed to Monday?
Germany doesn't do this, but the minimum, when all holidays fall on the worst possible days, is more than the number of holidays in the UK.
So even when you lose you win.
Don't do that in Norway either - just bad luck if the holidays happen to land on a weekend. On the other hand, we have five weeks of paid vacation, and holidays are not counted into those, I'm not sure how that's done in other countries?
but the UK has the fewest public holidays in Europe. In Germany we have 9-13 but don't get a day off if a public holiday is on a weekend. And we have a minimum of 20/24 days of holiday on top
Same for lots of jobs here.
Honestly, Wednesday and Thursday are the worst days for Christmas for those of us who also get Christmas Eve because they're the only days that don't result in 4 days in a row off from work.
If it's on a Friday, we get Thursday through Saturday. If it's on a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, they give us Friday through Monday, and if it's on a Tuesday, they give us Saturday through Tuesday.
But this year, we're off Saturday and Sunday, work Monday, are off Tuesday and Wednesday, and return to work on Thursday.
It's the same total number of days off, but it's way less useful - especially if travel is involved.
This is true for all public holidays in the UK, there's a (usually) fixed number of public holidays but the dates are flexible.
They're also included in the minimum 28 days paid time off too, meaning if you're a full time worker and have to work on a bank holiday your employer is legally required to offer an extra day off somewhere else instead, either a fixed date or added to your holiday allowance. Conversely, the "extra" day off you get when a monarch keels over may be subtracted from your holiday allowance for the year. This is also why my employer is allowed to follow English bank holidays despite having next to no presence in England; the number is fixed but the dates are not.
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