Employers and employees will have to calculated with fewer rescheduled working days in the work schedule of 2021 than in previous years and these will affect the period before Christmas. The only four day weekend of 2021 will relate to Easter. Taking the 5 rest days falling on weekends into account, we can plan with 5 extra rest days in the first half of the year and with 3 in the second half.
Public holidays and rest days and the relating rescheduled working days in 2021:
1 January, Friday | New year's day | rest day (3-day weekend) |
15 March, Monday | National holiday | rest day (3-day weekend) |
2 April, Friday | Good Friday | rest day |
5 April, Monday | Easter | rest day (4-day weekend) |
1 May, Saturday | Labour Day | weekend |
24 May, Monday | Pentecost | rest day (3-day weekend) |
20 August, Friday | State Foundation Day | rest day (3-day weekend) |
23 October, Saturday | Holiday of the 1956 Revolution | weekend |
1 November, Monday | All saint's day | rest day (3-day weekend) |
11 December, Saturday | Working day | rescheduled working day |
24 December, Friday | Christmas-eve | rest day |
25 December, Saturday | Christmas | weekend |
26 December, Sunday | Christmas | weekend (3-day weekend) |
1 January 2022, Saturday | New Year | weekend |