Weekend calendar for New Year holidays. How are New Year's holidays paid?

On New Year's Eve, the pre-holiday turmoil begins, and most Russians are already in anticipation of the long holidays that have become traditional for our country. Although it is still too early to plan how we will relax on the New Year holidays in 2019, you can still outline a plan for a mini-vacation.

For most Russians, the 2019 New Year's weekend will begin on Sunday, December 30, 2018.

Thanks to the transfer, Saturday, December 29, 2018, will be a working day (that is, a six-day working week awaits five-day workers), and Monday, December 31, 2018, becomes a day off. Then, at the beginning of January 2019, 7 days of the New Year holidays and the Christmas holiday follow. Thus, citizens working on a five-day week will rest on the New Year holidays on the following days:

Let's look at the whole of January - how many days off and holidays it has:

January 2019, 14 days off and 17 working days.

A draft of a new resolution prepared by the department has appeared on the federal portal of regulatory legal acts, from which you can find out which days off next year will become working days, and vice versa.

So, the New Year holidays in the country will begin on December 30 and will last until January 8, 2019.

The day off from Saturday, January 5, will be moved to Thursday, May 2. And Sunday, January 6 - respectively, on Friday, May 3. In addition, Saturday, February 23 will also be moved to Friday, May 10.

The Ministry of Labor of Russia has prepared proposals to postpone the days off in 2019. According to the draft resolution of the government of the Russian Federation, Russian citizens will have a rest during the New Year and Christmas holidays from December 30, 2018 to January 8, 2019.

The next holidays, Defender of the Fatherland Day and International Women's Day, will last from February 23 to 24 and from March 8 to 10, respectively.

The Russians will also have a rest from May 1 to 5 and from May 9 to 12, when the country will celebrate the Spring and Labor Day and Victory Day.

Also, the day off is traditionally scheduled for the Day of Russia - June 12. Residents of the Russian Federation will celebrate National Unity Day from November 2 to 4.

As explained in the Ministry of Labor, such a procedure for transferring rest days in 2019 was drawn up in order to rationally use weekends and non-working holidays by employees.

January, according to a long tradition, begins with long New Year holidays, and 2019 will not be an exception. Every year, the Ministry of Labor of Russia develops a decree indicating weekdays and holidays. Usually the document is approved in the fall of the current year for the next one, so the exact dates for 2019 are already known.

Next year, several holidays coincide with the weekend. In order to comply with the norm of Article 110 of the Labor Code that there must be at least 42 hours of uninterrupted rest between two working weeks, and to allow Russians to have a good rest, the government adopted a resolution “On the postponement of days off in 2019”.

For most Russians, the weekend in honor of the New Year 2019 will begin in advance - from Sunday, December 30, 2018. Thanks to the transfer, Saturday December 29, 2018 will be a working day (that is, a six-day working week awaits "five-day workers"), and Monday December 31, 2018 becomes a day off.

How can we relax on New Year's Eve?

• December 30, 2018 - Sunday closed.
• December 31, 2018 - Monday, closed from Saturday, December 29, 2018
• January 1, 2019 - Tuesday, 1st day of the New Year holidays.
• January 2, 2019 - Wednesday, 2nd day of the New Year holidays.
• January 3, 2019 - Thursday, 3rd day of the New Year holidays.
• January 4, 2019 - Friday, 4th day of the New Year holidays.
• January 5, 2019 - Saturday, 5th day of the New Year holidays.
• January 6, 2019 - Sunday, 6th day of the New Year holidays.
• January 7, 2019 - Monday, Christmas Day.
• January 8, 2019 - Tuesday, 7th day of the New Year holidays.

Thus, in total in Russia, the weekend for the New Year 2019 will last 10 days: from December 30, 2018 to January 8, 2019.

Of course, the situation in 2018 turned out to be more convenient due to the fact that holidays fell on weekends and were postponed. But, nevertheless, 9 days of vacation is also a very good time. For him, you will have time to prepare for the New Year, meet him and take a good walk and even go somewhere

New Year's Eve is only a month and a half away. And almost everyone who decided to spend it not at home watching TV, but on a trip, has already decided on their plans. Although not all, of course.

Russian tourists are quite conservative and most often choose beach destinations for the New Year. This is due to our climate - everyone wants to warm up, according to the Tez Tour tour operator. As a rule, many people want to fly away just before the New Year for 7 days / 6 nights.

“For the first time, Egypt will enter the list of popular destinations with a flight via Cairo. Also in the New Year's top will remain the UAE, Thailand, Dominican Republic, Cuba. Turkey, Cyprus, Israel will win in the "flight no more than 4 hours" segment. Tourists are also interested in Tenerife - this is an all-season destination, ”says Larisa Akhanova, PR director of the Tez Tour tour operator.

According to her, the UAE is ideal resorts for all occasions and budgets: there are many amusement parks, comfortable temperatures and the sea. For example, 7 days / 6 nights in the emirate of Sharjah will cost 74,901 rubles for two. This is a 3-star hotel with a departure on December 26, but such tours are quickly sold out.

The second big block of tourists will go to ski resorts. Another part will prefer sightseeing holidays, both within the country and abroad. The average check starts from 40 - 45 thousand rubles. This is higher than for summer destinations, due to the fact that the aviation component is large, Tez Tour explains.

“In general, Muscovites and residents of the Moscow region prefer to bask in the sun, while in winter they are more active in terms of excursions and entertainment,” Akhanova notes.

Turkey and Cyprus are popular among TUI tourists for the New Year, where even in the winter season there is a warm comfortable climate. Cyprus attracts with a wide variety of activities, including excursions and gastro tourism.

In ANEX Tour, among the popular destinations for celebrating the New Year, in addition to Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the Dominican Republic and Turkey, Vietnam and India are also distinguished. The popularity of these countries is associated with transport accessibility, including charter, good New Year's programs and, of course, visa-free or simplified visa procedures.

For those who have not bothered to buy a tour in advance, it is no longer worth waiting for last-minute offers for New Year's races - it is better to quickly choose from what is left.

“Delaying the purchase of a tour in the hope of picking up a last minute one, you can be left without a trip at all, since places in hotels for the New Year holidays begin to be booked six months in advance. As a rule, by December, many hotels are already “on a stop”, avoiding overbooking,” TUI Russia explains.

During the New Year period, tour operators do not put extra boards, do not enter into excess contracts with hotels, so you should not wait until the last burning offers, they may not be at all, or the most uninteresting options will remain, the representative of Tez Tour notes.

Fans of excursions should go to Eastern Europe.

“The Baltics, Hungary, the Czech Republic turn into a Christmas and New Year’s fairy tale in winter, and spending within the country is small,” advises Akhanova.

Another economical option for a trip to the New Year holidays is short tours around Russia, tour operators are sure.

In addition to the popular resorts of Krasnaya Polyana, with good transport accessibility and resort infrastructure, there is a high demand for short trips on New Year's dates to the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, the Republic of Tatarstan and Veliky Ustyug, ANEX Tour said.

According to Andrey Ryabov, PR manager of the national tour operator Alean, the Russians have tasted domestic resorts.

“Change in the ruble exchange rate reduces the attractiveness of foreign resorts. On the other hand, we are actively developing domestic tourism. And not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively. For example, Tatarstan has seriously invested in tourism infrastructure, which was confirmed by the recent World Cup. Great Ustyug started well, St. Petersburg is always interesting for tourists,” the expert says.

So, among the most popular New Year's tours in Russia: Kazan - 12,580 rubles per person for 4 days, Karelia - 19,924 rubles per person for 4 days, Veliky Ustyug - from 18,750 rubles per person for 4 days and St. Petersburg - from 1,417 ruble per person per day.

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New Year holidays are a fun time not only for schoolchildren and students, but also for working people, because the holiday traditionally gives the people of the country a long weekend. Despite the statements of officials about the abolition of long holiday weekends, in 2018 the law was not adopted, so we will meet 2019 as it should be, having a rest.

Several holidays and pre-holiday days in 2019 coincide with working days. For example, December 31 falls on a Monday, but will be non-working, etc. You can plan your winter mini-vacation now, as there is already a corresponding Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation on weekends and holidays in 2019.

In the outgoing 2018, before the New Year, he will rest on Saturday and Sunday, December 22 and 23, which, of course, will not please those who celebrate Catholic Christmas on December 25.

The day off from Saturday, December 29 is transferred to Monday, December 31. So the last weekend of 2018 will be Sunday and Monday December 30-31. From this moment, the most natural New Year holidays will begin - 2019 with their trips to the Christmas Tree with children and joyful communication with Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. And someone, probably, will go these days to ski resorts or, conversely, to warm countries.

According to the official calendar of weekends and holidays approved by the Government, the New Year holidays in 2019 will last from January 1 to January 8. We celebrate the New Year 2019 from Monday to Tuesday, and the first working day of 2019 will be only Wednesday, January 9th.

At the same time, the days off, Saturday and Sunday, January 5 and 6, will be moved to Thursday and Friday, May 2 and 3, respectively.

As a result, it turns out that you can celebrate the New Year this winter for as long as 10 days - from December 30, 2018 to January 8, 2019! Some will say that you don’t need to rest for so long, but remember the children! Schoolchildren are on winter holidays at this time, which means that adults have a great opportunity to spend the first days of 2019 with their children.

By the way, in a series of days off in January 2019, one should not forget to celebrate January 7 - Christmas.

It is necessary to indicate in the same way how we will rest on the rest of the holidays in 2019.

So, December 30 and 31, 2018 are days off, then from January 1 to January 8, 2019 are the New Year holidays.

On the Defender of the Fatherland Day in 2019 we have a rest for two days - Saturday 23 February and Sunday 24 February. At the same time, the day off from Saturday, February 23 is transferred to Friday, May 10.

In March for International Women's Day we will rest for three days - from Friday 8th to Sunday 10 March.

On the the May holidays 2019 falls as many as five days off - from Wednesday, May 1 to Sunday, May 5.

Victory Day in 2019 we will be able to celebrate for four days - from Thursday May 9th to Sunday May 12th.

On the National Unity Day in November 2019 - from Saturday 2 November to Monday 4 November.

In total, in connection with the holidays in 2019, Russians will be able to rest for 28 days - in fact, having received a full-fledged additional vacation. At the same time, it should be taken into account that the famous New Year holidays will begin on Sunday, December 30, 2018, and will last for the traditional ten days - until January 8, 2019 inclusive.

However, according to the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee, Honored Doctor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Gennady Onishchenko, it's time to stop protracted celebrations, especially on New Year's Eve - this is not useful from any point of view.

“It seems that my definition of the New Year holidays, which over the past ten years has become, as they now say, a meme, is still relevant,” Onishchenko said in a comment to the Federal News Agency. “I once called this period a “decade of horror” and I must say that protracted New Year celebrations cannot be called anything other than an anachronism.”

According to the parliamentarian, in most economically developed countries it is customary, after a day's rest, immediately after the New Year's Eve, as they say, to harness and start working normally, realizing the economic and political agenda.

“After the collapse of the Soviet Union, starting in the 1990s, we first walked from the New Year right up to the old New Year - almost a decade and a half,” Onishchenko recalled. “And this has always caused great concern in connection with such an important topic as the preservation of public health.”

The danger lies in wait for the Russians not only in connection with active libations and plentiful food, which have become invariable attributes of the protracted celebration of the New Year.

The danger lies in wait for the Russians not only in connection with active libations and plentiful food, which have become invariable attributes of the protracted celebration of the New Year. The tradition that emerged in post-Soviet times to spend winter holidays in hot regions of the planet is not conducive to health, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee believes.

“Returning home from hot countries just before the Epiphany frosts is a huge test for the body's adaptive system,” said the FAN interlocutor. - This applies to all ages, but it is especially dangerous for children, as well as for older people who have a worn out cardiovascular system. I equate these stresses for the body with Russian roulette.

According to Gennady Onishchenko, such voyages lead to the fact that all the energy accumulated on vacation is wasted on adaptation, and instead of a surge of strength, a person experiences malaise at best, and at worst, is in danger of immediately catching a respiratory infection, because in mid-January as the peak of influenza epidemics.

“I think we need to return to Soviet practice, when on December 31 we worked part-time, in the evening the beautiful half gave themselves into voluntary slavery for the production of herring under a fur coat and Russian salad, on January 1 we slept, and the second we went to work,” Onishchenko noted.

It would be correct and civilized, and besides, it would save people from the temptation to expose their body to serious climatic tests, overeating, excessive alcohol consumption and complete immobility under the hypnosis of militants and not the most worthy works performed by representatives of show business.

“Today, our citizens, having seriously undermined their health in all these areas, are very slowly, with difficulty, drawn into the working rhythm throughout the second half of January of the new year,” Onishchenko continued emotionally.

"It's time to end this! We need to start the new year in a working mood, from a low start, and work as it was in Soviet times and as all economically developed countries do today. It's better than torturing your health! - said the deputy of the State Duma.

With the initiative to shorten the New Year holidays in Russia, people's deputies come forward every year. The last time a bill to reduce holidays to two days - December 31 and January 1 - was submitted to the State Duma about six months ago.

However, the bill was once again "rolled". As it turned out, the initiative to have less rest does not arouse enthusiasm among the people. Only 20% of the citizens of our country are ready to support short holidays, while 71% of Russians are categorically against the cancellation of the New Year holidays.

Analysts at Superjob came to this conclusion. They concluded that Russians love long holidays and are not ready to sacrifice a single day off.

So we rested, we rested and we will rest!

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The weekend schedule for the New Year holidays of 2018 is not very different from previous years. As usual, workers are given a whole week of vacation.
Project No. 1250 on the transfer of weekends and holidays in Russia has already been published:

10/14/17 Dmitry Medvedev approved

The January weekend, which has already become a long tradition, will allow Russians to fully enjoy the New Year holidays. After that, from January 9, the usual working week will begin:
December 30, 2017(Saturday) - calendar day off;
Dec. 31(Sunday) - calendar day off;
1st of January(Monday) - New Year;
January 2(Tuesday) - public holiday;
January 3(Wednesday) - public holiday;
4 January(Thursday) - public holiday;
5 January(Friday) - public holiday;
January 6(Saturday) - day off (with a five-day working week);
January 7(Sunday) - Christmas;
January 8(Monday) is a public holiday.

Calendar of weekends and holidays in January 2018

Anticipation of the holiday will help not to be sad in the first working week of the new year. The Old New Year is respected in many families and not only Russian ones. Moreover, in 2018 it is celebrated on the night from Saturday to Sunday, so the fact that this holiday is not a nationwide day off does not hurt to celebrate it well.
According to tradition, on a generous evening (this is what this holiday is called in Ukraine and Belarus), it is customary to cook porridge from whole grains of wheat, bake pancakes and pies, and cook pork dishes, as St. Basil the Great, whose memory is honored on January 14, was the patron saint of pig breeders. Gardeners this night shake off the snow from the apple branches. This ritual is said to ensure a good harvest.

Holidays in January 2018 are not limited to Christmas and New Year holidays, this month has enough interesting dates and memorable days, but none of them is a day off.
January 12– Prosecutor's Day
13th of January– Russian Press Day
The 25th of January- Students' Day or Tatiana's Day
— Navigator's Day
January 27- Day of lifting the blockade

The moon makes its usual circle, regardless of weekends and weekdays, vacations and holidays. In January, she will be especially supportive of us on 4, 17 and 25. And, of course, at this time you especially want to change something in your life. You can, for example, have a wedding this month, the most suitable days for this will be January 1, 21, 26.
Who is not ready for such a drastic change, you can change less dramatically and make a new haircut. The moon will help in this matter on January 8, 18, 27. In extreme cases, you can think about next spring and open the sowing season on the windowsill. The moon also welcomes this business, especially January 2, 25 and 30 - these are the most suitable days for planting and transplanting plants.

As we rest, so we work, so we live. How you start the year is how it will be. Let's change ourselves and make the world around us a little better.
Author - consultant: Yulia Belka

Many people are waiting for the annual and long New Year holidays. You can already see how we rest for the New Year 2020 and the weekend for the New Year holidays.

January is an opportunity for many to take an extra vacation. After all, as a rule, weekends for the January holidays stretch for a period of more than a week. 2020 is no exception. Although this year we will work more and rest less.

See the 2020 Production Calendar for all holidays and weekends. You can download documents in Excel and PDF for free.

How to relax on New Year's Eve in 2020

Long New Year holidays are already an established tradition in Russia. The average duration of a winter holiday is 10 days. And although the Government of the Russian Federation annually transfers days off to other holidays, there are no fewer days off for the January holidays. So, let's tell you how we relax for the New Year 2020.

According to the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation (draft) on the postponement of days off:

• Saturday 4 January is moved to 4 May;
• Sunday 5 January - 5 May.

How we relax in January 2020 official weekend (calendar)

How to relax on New Year's holidays in 2020: days off in January

The Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation on the postponement of weekends and holidays in 2020 is in line with the article of Law No. 112-FZ and the established long-term tradition of long New Year holidays.

New Year 2020 has 8 days off in a row - from January 1 to January 8 inclusive. December 30 and 31 (Monday and Tuesday) - working days, not shortened.

Total in January 2020:

• 17 working days
• 8 public holidays - from 1 to 8 January;
• 6 regular days off - 11-12, 18-19, 25-26 January.

To extend the New Year holidays, many will take a few vacation days in January 2020. In this case, the billing period is 12 months from 01/01/19 to 12/31/19. The employer must issue vacation pay in advance - on December 27th. Since the final salary for December may not yet be known, there are two ways to calculate the average salary:

1. Calculate the salary for December in advance, if possible, and taking into account this amount, determine the vacation pay for January. If something changes, then recalculate the amount. For example, if an employee falls ill on the last day of December.
2. Calculate the average earnings based on the known part of the December salary. When the final salary for December is determined, recalculate vacation pay.

If employees took vacations in January 2019, the days of the New Year holidays are not excluded when calculating vacation pay in 2020. If in January 2019 employees were on vacation after the holidays, then New Year's days are excluded from the billing period (clause 5 of the Regulation, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 24, 2007 No. 922). But the holidays themselves must be taken into account to calculate the number of days for which the company divides earnings (letter of the Ministry of Labor of Russia dated 15.04.16 No. 14-1 / B-351)