We get day-off on these days in Hong Kong to celebrate or in memory of certain events: - January 1st - Chinese Lunar New Year (normally 3 consecutive holidays including new year's eve, 1st and 2nd days of Chinese New Year) - Easter (Good Friday, the day following Good Friday and Easter Monday <- so basically 4 days off including the Sunday) - Ching Ming Festival (in memory of our ancestors so we clean their tombs on that day) - May 1st (Labour Day) - The Buddha's Birthday - Tuen Ng Festival (where dragon boat racing happens) - July 1st (HK SAR Establishment Day also known as the Protest Day since 2003) - The day following Mid-Autumn Festival - National Day - Chung Yeung Festival (Go hiking day but usually we go hiking and tomb cleaning on the same day) - Christmas Day and the first weekday after Christmas Day So we get 17 public holidays each year. Comparing to other countries, I think this is average in terms of the no. of holidays. There are Clutchfans from different countries, what are the Public Holidays in your country? I guess in US, different States have different Public Holiday Schedule, am I right?
It depends on where you work what holidays they follow. Where I work, they only give off for the following national holidays: New Years Day Memorial Day Fourth of July Labor Day Thanksgiving Day and the day after Christmas Day They also give us two additional "floating holidays" which basically are extra vacation days to be used at the employee's discretion for holidays not covered.
We have something called the "statutary holidays". So 12 days out of the 17 public holidays I listed are "Statutory Holidays" (I think they took out Easter holidays and Christmas holidays) and an employee is entitled to get pay on these Statutory Holidays. The employer must grant alternative day off to compensate the employee if one was asked to work on those holidays.
Here in T&T we get 16 holidays per year. I always thought that that was kind of high but looking at the OP I guess it isn't that bad. New Year's - Jan 1st Carnival - Mon and Tues before Ash Wednesday (not official holidays but could be considered that because all government and most private offices are closed) Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day - Mar 30th Easter - Good Friday and Easter Monday Indian Arrival Day - May 30th (celebration of indian indentured labourers' arrival in the country) Corpus Christi - June 11th Labour Day - June 19th Emancipation Day - Aug 1st (celebration of the freedom of slaves) Independence Day - Aug 31st Republic Day - Sep 24th (we actually became a republic on the 1st august but it's celebrated on 24th sept) Divali & Eid ul Fitr - these are tentative and are announced by the Hindu and Muslim communties respectively. Usually occurs sometime in October and November) Christmas - 25th December Boxing Day - 26th December
No MLK day in Omaha, NE but everyone's kids get President's Day. The funny thing is I don't remember getting MLK in Baytown either until high school ('95 - '96), although all through Junior High we would get an inservice day on a Friday in mid-January, which I think actually corresponded to some Confederate holiday.
June 19th is JUNETEENTH here in Texas and it is basically the same as your Emancipation Day Rocket River 1st state in the U.S. to make it a State Holiday THANK YOU AL EDWARDS!!!
