Holidays this year are January 1 (New Years Day), January 30-February 4 (Chinese New Year), February 28 (228 Memorial Day), April 4 (Children’s Day), June 2 (Dragon Boat Festival), September 8 (Mid-Autumn Festival) and October 10 (Double Ten Day). There don’t appear to be any sudden extra days or make-up Saturdays in store this year. Enjoy!
National holidays for 2015 seem to be announced (not sure if this is official). The gov’t is being ‘generous’ and giving Friday/Monday holidays for any holidays falling on Sat/Sun. Somehow all of the holidays next year fall on a Saturday or Sunday so all of them become 3/4 day weekends. The only downside is that CNY only includes one weekend and you return to work on Tuesday but have 2/27 off for a 3 day weekend. I’m guessing that many will try to take those 3 days off and if you do work basically nothing will get done.
1/1 (thursday) - no long weekend
2/18-2/23 CNY
2/27 - Friday before 2/28
4/3 and 4/6 - 4 day weekend
6/19 - Dragon Boat
9/28 - Moon Festival
10/9 - for 10/10
Not official yet, but the Executive Yuan wants it to be this way. It is highly unlikely their proposal will be opposed by anyone who wants voter support in the elections at the end of the year.
Taiwan, the country where weekends are holidays! So many holidays! :roflmao:
The concept of using the adjoining Monday and Friday is truly revolutionary.
(Japan started doing this at least 14 years ago…of course the government and their mates know this already…
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But make sure they don’t get those five days straight at CNY…we have to worry about the laoban’s stash getting hit seemingly. As if productivity could be measured like that.