How to rest on the New Year-2016

Everyone expects New Year holidays with great impatience. Particularly laboring people, rather tired by year-round hard labor processes. Only festive winter days leave an opportunity to relax leisurely in the circle of close people, go to visit friends, visit distant relatives, go to a ski resort. Each year, January gives Russians a long line of free days. But alas, in 2016, precious and long-awaited holidays were significantly cut .... So, how will we rest on the New Year 2016?

How to rest on the New Year 2016: how many holidays

The Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation has provided here such a schedule for the transfer of holidays and holidays for the winter holidays in New Year in 2016: from January 1 to January 10 inclusive.

New Year's holidays: how much we rest

Weekends and holidays in the New Year period:

• December 31 - Thursday (shortened working day, legally the labor process should end 1 hour earlier)
• January 1 - Friday (holiday, New Year)
• January 2 - Saturday (closed, postponed to March 7, 2016)
• January 3 - Sunday (closed, postponed to May 3, 2016)
• January 4 - Monday (national holiday)
• January 5 - Tuesday (national holiday)
• January 6 - Wednesday (national holiday)
• January 7 - Thursday (holiday, Christmas)
• January 8 - Friday (national holiday)
• January 9 - Saturday (calendar holiday)
• 10 - Sunday (calendar holiday)
• 11 - Monday (the beginning of the first in the new year of the working week)

People working in shifts during the New Year holidays have the right to a payment agreed upon with the administration at higher tariffs and additional hours for rest. The rest is to have time to rest to the maximum. In 2016, only 17 holidays were recorded, in comparison with 20 former days. At the same time, discussions continue on the cancellation of the transfer of holidays that fell on the weekend. Now you know how we will rest for the New Year-2016.