How to rest in 2020: Calendar weekends and holidays

Who and what brings the weekend

The Russian foundThe Labor Code, Article 112. Public holidays 14 public holidays:

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Jan. 8 - New Year holidays;
• January 7 - Christmas Day;
• February 23 - the Day of Defender of the Fatherland;
• March 8 - International Women's Day;
• May 1 - Spring and Labor Day;
• May 9 - Victory Day;
• June 12 - Day of Russia;
• November 4 - National Unity Day.

By law, if celebration falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the output from this day is transferred to the next business. An exception is made for New Year and Christmas holidays. The output from these days the Russian government allocates in its sole discretion.

Also, sometimes it can make working some Saturdays and at their expense to extend the festive holiday. However, in 2020 it managed to dispense with such victims.

As a rule, rest days filled with awkward gaps between holidays and weekends. For example, if the 9th of May - Thursday, logical to Friday May 10 weekend, that the Russians were planning a trip to the country or extraordinary vacation for four days.

How to rest in 2020

The Russian government approvedTransfer of days off in 2020 Labor proposal to transfer the weekend with 4th and 5th of January, which fall on Saturday and Sunday, on 4 and 5 May.

In addition, due to the coincidence with the output of a non-working day, from 23 February moved to the 24th, from March 8 - 9 th, from 9 May - 11 th.

In 26 days we will finally have a rest:

• In January - 1st to 8th (December 31, 2019 - working day).
• In February - from 22 th to 24 th.
• In March - from the 7th to the 9th.
• In May - 1 st to 5 th and 9 th to 11 th.
• In June - from 12 th to 14 th.
• In November - only 4th.

31 December 2020 - Thursday, a working day. About the schedule of New Year holidays in 2021 it will be known in about 12 months, when the Ministry of Labor is determined to transfer the output for that year.

How to relax at the six-day working week

If you work six days a week, holiday weekend there will be less:

• From 1 to 8 January (December 31, 2019 - a working day).
• 23 and 24 February.
• 8 and 9 March.
• 1, May 3 and 5, as well as 9 and 10 of May.
• 12 and 14 June.
• November 4th.

How to extend the holiday by using holidays

The Labor Code requires necessarily a rest from you 14 times a yearThe Labor Code, Article 125. The division of the annual holiday with pay into parts. Review of Vacation consecutive days. Other days you can take whatever you like, of course, notice to the employer.

So, leave January 9 and 10 can stretch eight-day New Year holidays up to 12 days. Three days of May - 6th, 7th and 8th - is also connected to the output in a 12-day vacation. In addition, the holiday can "stick" to the three-day weekend in February, March or after - in June. This will allow you to enter the work a day later or to withdraw from it on the day before.