Postponement of weekends during the New Year holidays. Postponement of weekends during the New Year holidays. What date do the New Year holidays begin?

New Year's weekend is the longest of the year. Of those additional days off that the Labor Code gives us in honor of certain holidays, more than half occurs at the beginning of the year. Immediately 8 days out of 14 fall in January, when we rest in honor of the New Year and Christmas. How we will relax for the New Year 2018-2019 - days off for the January holidays in Russia according to the current law.

What days are non-working days in honor of the New Year?

The law says that the days from January 1 to January 8 are non-working days in Russia. At the same time, it is curious that we do not rest all these days in honor of the New Year. On January 7 we are given a day off on the occasion of Christmas, but the remaining seven days we really rest in honor of the New Year holidays.

Of course, few people think much about this, and a tiny percentage of people attend church on Christmas or Easter in Russia. For most, the entire January weekend is dedicated to the New Year.

From the point of view of labor legislation, the only difference last day year from all others - that it is pre-holiday. If December 31st falls on a weekday, the work shift must be shortened by an hour. In general, when we're talking about about an 8-hour working day, workers must be allowed to go home after seven hours of work.

How will we relax for the New Year 2019 - how many consecutive weekends are ahead

Despite the fact that December 31 is considered a working day, this time we will rest on the last day of the year. Even though this day is Monday.

The thing is that in Russia there is no one working day that would be located between non-working days. In such cases, the government moves the holiday to such date from another date.

In this case, on December 31st we will rest for Saturday, December 29th. Accordingly, the last Saturday of the year will be a working day, and the next working week will be a six-day week.

In total, we will rest for 10 consecutive days - from December 30 to January 8. The same as it was last year.

Will there be additional days off in January except New Year's?

No, having returned to work on January 9, we will rest strictly on Saturdays and Sundays until the beginning of March. Even the holiday of February 23 this time fell on a Saturday, and the government moved the reserve day off from that day to May.

By the way, two extra weekends that appeared in January were also postponed to May.

January 5th and 6th fall on Saturday and Sunday in the new year. In such cases, the weekends do not expire, and the government transfers them to other working days. In January we will have enough rest, but in May these reserve days in 2019 will come in handy. Due to the postponement of two days off from January and one from February, in May 2019 we will have almost the same long holiday as immediately after the new year.

There is still almost a month until the New Year, but the pre-holiday bustle has already gripped the residents of the Urals. Many people are purchasing gifts and souvenirs at New Year's sales, booking tours to resorts and sanatoriums, and some have even bought and put up a Christmas tree. And certainly everyone is making plans for the traditional Russian holidays. After all, we will rest for 10 days, as in previous years.

How to relax on New Year's holidays 2019

Traditionally, the holiday calendar for the year ahead is developed in the summer by the Ministry of Labor and Social Relations of the Russian Federation. The Russian tripartite commission for regulating social and labor relations approved the schedule for postponing weekends. There was a corresponding document.

Despite the fact that the working year begins on January 9, New Year holidays will last, as expected, 10 days. They will begin on December 30 and end on January 8. The day off from Saturday, February 23rd will be moved to Friday, May 10th. On Defender of the Fatherland Day, Russians will rest for two days - February 23 and 24 (Saturday and Sunday). On International Women's Day - three days - from 8 to 10 March. During the May holidays, Russians will rest from May 1 to 5 and from May 9 to 12. Besides, non-working days will be June 12 and November 2-4.

The practice of postponing holidays is not typical for most states. In this regard, Russia is an almost unique country; every season there will be a “long weekend” lasting from 3 to 5 days.

New Year holidays: how was it before?

It is curious that the New Year holidays did not always exist. Thus, since 1992, only January 1 and 2 were officially non-working days in Russia. In 2005, the weekend was extended until January 5th. Christmas, which is celebrated on January 7, is also considered an official holiday, so, thanks to the postponement of the holiday, there have been years when the holiday lasted up to 11 days.

In 2013, January 6 and 8 were designated as official days off. Sometimes December 30 and 31 are declared non-working days, but this requires a State Duma Decree.

Interesting. The New Year holidays do not apply to all residents of the country. Thus, many workers employed in the service sector have been working since January 1-2. And workers of shops and restaurants - even on New Year's Eve. Employees also work on New Year's Eve and all holidays public transport, representatives of law enforcement agencies, firefighters, rescuers and doctors. For most students, the session begins in early January, and teachers work accordingly. For them, the holidays begin after January 25 - Tatiana's Day.

Some deputies, politicians and social activists insist on the need to cancel the New Year holidays. The main argument is the negative effect on the country's economy. However, so far these unfounded statements have not been documented, and according to statistics, 71% of Russians have a negative attitude towards the proposals. At the same time, in terms of the number of working hours per year, Russia is ahead of most European countries, so the State Duma does not yet support this initiative.

Important! New Year's Eve in 2019 occurs from Monday to Tuesday.

When do we start relaxing for the New Year?

Before the long New Year's weekend, Russians will face a six-day working week. This is due to the fact that December 31st falls on a Monday. Therefore, Saturday, December 29 is considered a working day. This decision was made by the Ministry of Labor and supported by the Government of the Russian Federation.

In total, we rest for the New Year for 10 days:

• December 30 (Sunday)
• December 31 (Monday) - transfer of the day off from working Saturday, December 29
• January 1 (Tuesday) - official New Year
• January 2-4 (Wednesday-Friday) - New Year holidays 2019
• January 5-6 (Saturday-Sunday) - calendar weekend
• January 7 (Monday) - Christmas
• January 8 (Tuesday) - official holiday
• January 9 (Wednesday) - beginning of the 2019 working year.

When is the first working day?

The Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation decided to start the first working week on Wednesday, January 9, so that after 3 days the weekend would begin again, and Russians could more easily adapt after a long ten-day weekend.

There will be no more official holidays in January. However, there are still a few more reasons to have fun in January. On the night of January 13-14, the Old New Year is celebrated (according to the old style). On the evening of January 13 in Yekaterinburg will be held traditional the main winter music festival “Old New Rock 2019”. January 19 will be the Orthodox holiday of the Epiphany. This night, as a rule, is accompanied by severe frosts, and many believers, walruses and simply thrill-seekers plunge into the baptismal fonts. January 25th professional holiday“Tatiana’s Day,” students celebrate.

History of New Year celebrations in Russia

New Year in Russia began to be celebrated at the end of the 15th century. At first it was celebrated on the night of February 28 or 29 to March 1, and from 1492 - from August 31 to September 1. The tradition of celebrating the New Year on January 1st came under Peter I in 1700.

Initially, the New Year was celebrated with large services and solemn ceremonies with the participation of the king and the nobility. Peter I, having reformed the holiday in accordance with Christian Christmas canons, signed a decree in which he also prescribed the traditions of the celebration. One of them was the decoration of the images in Gostiny Dvor with pine, spruce and juniper branches. It is believed that this decree became the basis of the tradition of decorating the New Year tree.

In 1919, the Bolsheviks issued a decree on the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian, accordingly postponing the New Year celebrations. This is how the old New Year appeared, which is celebrated on January 13th.

In 1929, New Year was declared a working day. And only in 1947, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declared January 1 a holiday.

And at the end of the 1970s, a fashion appeared for the Chinese horoscope, which associated each new year with the arrival of one of 12 animals in turn. According to this tradition, 2019 will be the year of the pig.

New Year traditions

In Russia, it is customary to decorate a Christmas tree for the New Year. Christmas decorations, beads, garlands and tinsel. Cotton wool is placed under the Christmas tree, symbolizing snow, and toy Santa Claus and Snow Maiden are placed. On New Year's Eve, parents put gifts for their children under the tree, and the children believe that Santa Claus brought them.

On New Year's Eve, it is customary to listen to the President's address and watch classic films, including "The Magicians", "The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath" and others. When the chimes strike, it is customary to light sparklers, drink champagne and make a wish. After midnight it is customary to set off fireworks in the street.

Traditional dishes for New Year's table are salads "Olivier" (winter) and "Herring under a fur coat", tangerines and persimmons, "Soviet" or "Russian" champagne, jellied meat and chocolates. Although you can improvise and put anything on the table. For example, here.

School holidays are loved and long-awaited not only for millions of students in our country, but also for their parents. To plan successfully winter period holidays at school and their vacation schedule, parents should know the New Year holiday schedule for 2019-2020 and the dates when their children’s studies begin. This way, they will be able to adjust their vacation time and other events to the schoolchildren’s rest period. At this time, you can take the whole family on a trip, to the country, plan trips to museums, theaters and other entertainment programs.

How many days do we rest?

It's not just children who have holidays. This is a wonderful and long-awaited time, which always passes incredibly quickly and, often very brightly, is accessible to adult citizens of Russia. Every year, at the legislative level, the country's authorities decide when and how many days the residents of the state will have the opportunity to take a break from everyday work. As a rule, such a calendar of holidays and weekends applies only to officially employed citizens working in budgetary sphere labor market, and this also applies to schoolchildren and students.

Holidays, as well as the time of vacations common to all, are determined by Labor Code Russian Federation. According to this government document, in 2020, in the month of January, we will have a rest according to the wording, which is enshrined in the Labor Code and is called “New Year holidays.” This concept includes the numbers from January 1st to January 8th inclusive. This general rule has been operating on the territory of our country since 2012 and is completely satisfactory for our fellow citizens. True, some servants of the people are trying to introduce an initiative to extend the holiday weekend and add December 31 to them. But so far this amendment has not officially passed, and we will rest according to the Labor Code.

In 2019-2020, the New Year will begin, as always, on the night of January 1, 2020. Russians will have the opportunity not to go to work from January 1 to January 8 inclusive. Everyone's favorite Old New Year will fall at the beginning of the week in 2020, and therefore residents of Russia will not have the opportunity to rest and relax. So, if you adhere to the tradition of celebrating this controversial but fun day, then be patient and wait until the end of the working day on January 13th. And remember that on January 14 you will have to go back to work in the morning; in this sense, Russian legislation does not provide any relief for citizens.

New Year's calendar of work and weekends for the New Year 2020

The days when the whole family can enjoy a relaxing holiday in January are the longest, and therefore long-awaited. In the coming year 2020, no exceptions are expected in this sense. Russian citizens are planning various trips with the whole family these days. This time really gives people an atmosphere of kindness and family warmth. New Year's holidays are like a small vacation that people truly value and which they carefully plan.

The first of January falls in the middle of the week, it will be Wednesday. The New Year holidays will last from this day until January 8 inclusive. But January 4 and 5, which fall on Saturday and Sunday in the calendar, will definitely regain their status as full-fledged holiday weekends in the future. They will be rescheduled for another time. There is no exact information yet on how the authorities will manage these days off. Perhaps the New Year holidays will be extended, and we will return to work not on January 9, but only on January 11. In this case, the New Year holidays 2020 will become incredibly big. Another option is that this couple of days will go into May and will complement the weekend period as part of the May Day holiday, or two days will be added to Victory Day. In any case, Russians should not worry, people will definitely get their legal holidays, the Labor Code of the Russian Federation simply will not allow other scenarios.

If we talk about the production calendar, then everything depends on the specific organization. In many manufacturing and service sectors, there are irregular working hours, where people work 12 hours or even days. For these categories of the working population, it is necessary to take these features into account when drawing up the appropriate calendar plan. For the country as a whole, with a 5-day working week, when a person works 8 hours every day, the following features of recording working and non-working time in the first month of 2020 can be determined.

In January 2020, the total number of days is 31. Official working days in January are 17. The number of non-working days is 14. Transfers of holidays to other dates are 2 (January 4 and 5).

Happy holidays for schoolchildren on New Year 2020

Modern children are the same boys and girls as 10 years ago, but with some differences. And this is understandable - when times change, it is children who are the first to catch the wind of change. Today, guys still love to communicate, have fun, make plans and fool around as before. Only the methods have changed a little. These days, most kids are older school age communicate, make acquaintances, make friends, find entertainment on the Internet.

What about the holidays? How do modern children prefer to spend their weekends, especially when the holiday period lasts as long as in winter holidays? Among the dominant entertainment for schoolchildren during the New Year holidays are the following options:

• are engaged in photography, because in new year holidays There are many wonderful places and scenery against which your selfie will look very attractive. After this, most often the guys organize secret competitions for best photo on Instagram and other virtual networks;
• play computer games over the network, when competitions take place with real people;
• If, after all, children get tired of surfing the Internet, then they choose a sports and entertainment form of leisure. This includes slides, skating rinks, ski lodges, and so on;
• visiting cinemas, since during the New Year holidays, as a rule, there are a huge number of movie premieres, both foreign and domestic directors;
• organization of so-called “apartment parties”, when parents go to relatives, and children invite friends to their home for a holiday party.

Winter holidays 2020 for students

The New Year will come very soon, the session and exams are behind us and now is the time for students to have a good rest and gain strength before the next academic period. What to do with yourself during such a long vacation, which the state gives us at the beginning of January? Sitting all day watching TV, eating salads, is perhaps not the brightest prospect, especially for young people.

There are many options for spending a useful and exciting holiday weekend. The main thing is not to get lost in this diversity, but to draw up a more or less clear plan and try to stick to it.

Who are the students? These people are already quite adults, but in fact most of them are still real children! Therefore, the way of spending leisure time among students is something between children's fun and adult leisure. During the New Year holidays, we offer the following activities for students of all ages:

• a trip to the country of your dreams;
• a trip to the mountains in the company of like-minded people;
• meeting with old friends, classmates and fellow students;
• organization sports leisure, for example, the option to gather friends, rent laser tag equipment and go to the nearest forest to get true adrenaline;
• going to nightlife in your city;
• participation in various master classes and quests;
• trip to a ski resort;
• visiting memorable places of your hometown and region in which you were born and raised;
• going to the theater or cinema;
• spending evenings in a coffee shop in the company of a loved one;
• a trip to visit relatives in another city.

To plan a vacation in advance, outline a leisure plan and see all your loved ones - every Russian tries to do all this during the New Year holidays. To make it easier to cope with the assigned tasks, you can now familiarize yourself and find out How to relax in Russia for the New Year 2018, and how many New Year's weekends and holidays await us.

How to relax during the New Year holidays 2018

According to the proposal of the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation to postpone the holidays in 2018, you can now find out exactly how long the New Year holidays will last. The fact is that in the coming year, the New Year holiday 2018 falls on the night from Sunday to Monday. This wonderful coincidence of circumstances will help even those who work on a six-day week to be on time with all the pre-holiday preparations.

Thus, it will be possible to prepare for the onset of the New Year 2018 as early as Saturday, December 30, since it is from this date that the official New Year's weekend begins, which will last until January 8 inclusive (see calendar below).

Official New Year's holidays in 2018

Based on the draft resolution of the Russian Government and in particular Rosmintruda, the schedule of weekends and working dates for the upcoming New Year period will be as follows: from December 30 to January 8 inclusive — the New Year holidays will be held, so the duration of the New Year holidays this year will be 10 days, which is 1 day more than in 2017.

Thus, in January 2018, from the 31st calendar day, there will be 17 working days, in turn, there will be 14 days off and holidays this month.

Postponement of holidays in January

For a more rational use of time, the highest authorities made the following decision: due to the fact that January 6 falls on a Saturday (and by law this day refers to the New Year holidays and is considered a non-working day), it is postponed to March 9. The transfer of weekends and holidays described above will not be the only one for January 2018. Due to the fact that January 7, the Nativity of Christ, is classified as and falls on a calendar day off - Sunday, there will be another shift in the production calendar. In this case, the day off on January 7th is moved to May 2nd.

The question may arise: how are such movements of holiday dates in the production calendar legalized? The answer can be found by referring to the legislation of the Russian Federation, which states that in the case when public holiday falls on a calendar weekend (that is, Saturday or Sunday), it is automatically transferred to the nearest Monday or other convenient date. This date is being discussed at top level and finally establish it by adopting the relevant act and making it public.

New Year 2018: holidays and weekends

On January 7, 2018, Russia will celebrate the second most important holiday in Orthodoxy (after Easter) - the Nativity of Christ, this day will also be a non-working day.

It may seem that our country is almost the only one in the world that takes such a long holiday for the New Year. In many countries there are several times fewer non-working days. In Russia, this trend has developed historically. Thanks to the innovations of Peter the Great, the first celebration of the New Year took place, which in the future shifted due to the adoption of a new calendar. This gave rise to the first ones, which are now so loved by both children and adults.

On New Year's Eve, the pre-holiday bustle begins, and most Russians are already looking forward to the long holidays that have become traditional for our country, so we will tell you about how we will relax during the New Year holidays in 2019

New Year's weekend

According to a long-standing tradition, January begins with long New Year holidays and 2019 will be no exception. Every year, the Russian Ministry of Labor develops a resolution indicating weekdays and holidays. Usually the document is approved in the fall of the current year for the next, so there are no exact dates for 2019 yet, but we can talk about preliminary numbers, since a draft document already exists.

Attention! Russia is one of the few countries where the practice of postponing holidays is relevant. And in 2019, Russians working 5 days a week can expect several periods of so-called “long weekends” lasting from 3 to 5 days.

Quite often, holiday dates are interspersed with working days, which causes a number of inconveniences. Firstly, it is difficult to plan travel and trips to relatives. Secondly, a weekday surrounded by weekends is usually unproductive. When developing a project, the Ministry of Labor must take into account the ratio of working days and weekends, trying to eliminate the interruption of several non-working days by one weekday.

Recently, there have been legislative proposals to make December 31 an official holiday and a non-working day. At the same time, some people's representatives are taking the initiative to shorten the winter holidays. Considering that citizens already have too much rest, and long holidays negatively affect the country’s economy. But, according to statistics, in terms of the number of working hours, the employed Russian population is ahead of most Europeans. At the same time, 71% of the country's residents have a negative attitude towards the cancellation of the long winter holidays. So far, such a radical measure is not supported in the State Duma.

New Year's Eve in 2019 occurs from Monday to Tuesday.

Information about transfers

Considering that December 31, 2018 is Monday, the government has already taken care of planning the New Year holidays in 2019, taking into account the interests of Russians and creating conditions for a good rest. In the adopted draft, workers will have to go to work on Saturday (December 29), but Monday will become a day off. In addition, in most enterprises the last working day of the year is unofficially shortened. It turns out that the winter holidays will begin on Sunday and, most likely, will last until January 8 inclusive.

Two days off, released on January 5 and 6 (Saturday and Sunday, respectively), Russians are offered time off for the May holidays of 05/03/19 and 05/04/19, receiving as many as 5 days off in a row.

How long will we rest?

Let's start from December 2018:

• 30 – Sunday;
• 31 – postponed day off with work on December 29.

Weekend dates in January 2019:

• 1 ‒ official holiday New Year;
• 2-4 – New Year holidays 2019;
• 5-6 – calendar days off;
• 7 – Nativity of Christ;
• 8 – official non-working.

When is the first working day?

The work week in 2019 is likely to begin on January 9th. But it will be short-lived - only 3 days, which will make it easier to get involved in the work process. Other holidays, even unofficial ones, will also help you not to feel sad after a fun holiday. The old New Year, beloved in many Russian homes, will begin on the night of January 13-14, the Orthodox - Epiphany of the Lord falls on January 19, and the young part of the population will celebrate the student holiday - Tatiana's Day - on the 25th.