Should Russians wait for a day off on December 31?

Non-working days 2020

The list of non-working holidays is established by the Labor Code (Article 112 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). However, if any holiday falls on a day off (Saturday or Sunday), then the day off must be moved to the next working day after the holiday. For example, this was exactly the postponement in 2019 due to the fact that February 23 is a Saturday. As a result, Monday February 25th was also a non-working day.

Other rules apply when the weekend coincides with the New Year holidays and Christmas. In this case, the Government transfers two weekend days from among those that coincide to other days in the current calendar year. That is, no one knows in advance what other non-working days will be added in the coming year. That is why everyone was eagerly awaiting the release of the Resolution establishing the official transfer of days off in 2020.

To work or not

Before and after the New Year, residents of the country will experience short working weeks. The week before the holiday begins on the 30th and 31st, the latter is shortened by 1 hour. People will be out for a walk from January 1 to January 8 inclusive and will go to work on Thursday, January 9, 2020. The proposal to declare the last day of the year free from work has caused a slight stir. The initiator of the proposal asks to postpone the day off to 31 and work it at another time.

On a note! It is noted that the number of days off established in the Labor Code remains unchanged.

Everyone will be able to use time more rationally if New Year's Eve is free, the authors of the initiative believe. It will also contribute to “harmonizing the interests of workers, employers and trade unions.”

In 2020, December 31 is Tuesday. For example, in the Tomsk region, the governor signed an agreement to postpone the day off to the 31st; it will be worked out on Saturday, December 28, 2019. But it will only affect the activities of officials, and not all residents. At the same time, one of the authors of the bill, Yaroslav Nilov, said that there is no need to wait for a day off this year - the bill was submitted for consideration only to the State Duma. Before changes are made, the initiative must be subject to numerous readings and other procedures.

Holidays 2020: official holidays with postponements

The government approved the following procedure for postponing weekends in 2020 (Government Decree No. 875 dated July 10, 2019):

• Saturday 4 January moved to Monday 4 May;
• Sunday 5 January has been moved to Tuesday 5 May.

This will allow Russians to relax in 2020 on holidays:

• in January 8 days: from January 1 to January 8;
• in February 3 days: from February 22 to 24;
• in March 3 days: from March 7 to March 9;
• in May, first 5 days: from May 1 to 5, then another 3 days: from May 9 to 11;
• in June 3 days: from June 12 to 14;
• in November 1 day in the middle of the week: November 4.

Postponement of holidays

The transfer is approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, and a corresponding decree is signed annually. It will officially appear in the fall of 2020, but today we can predict the planned postponements for the holidays of 2021.

The dates of the moved days look like this:

• from May 1 to 3;
• from May 9 to 10;
• from June 12 to 14.

It is possible to postpone from January 2 to 11 and from January 3 to 12.

If we take into account the number of days off quarterly, they are distributed as follows:

• I quarter (January-March) – 36;
• II (April-June) – 29
• III (July-September) – 26
• IV (October-December) – 27.

The data is relevant for citizens with a 5-day work schedule.

The monthly number of weekends and holidays in 2021 is as follows:

• January – 18.
• February – 9.
• March – 9.
• April – 8.
• May – 12.
• June – 9.
• July – 9.
• August – 9.
• September – 8.
• October – 10.
• November – 9.
• December -8.

Table of working time standards for 2020

The number of calendar, working, and weekend days, the number of working hours for 40-, 36-, 24-hour working weeks, calculated by month, quarter, half-year and overall year, are presented below:

The authorities of 7 more regions have postponed the holiday to December 31, 2019

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The governors of the Magadan, Kaliningrad and Volgograd regions, as well as the heads of Karelia, Ingushetia and Yakutia, signed decrees and orders to postpone the working day from December 31 to December 28, 2019.

The authorities of the Kursk region also recommended moving the day off from December 28 to 31 in agreement with labor collectives.

Thus, to date, 32 constituent entities of the Russian Federation have already decided that December 31, 2020 will become a day off.

New Year gifts

1. First, we decide on the amount that we can allocate from the family budget for gifts for family and friends.
2. On a piece of paper we write the names of those to whom we want to give gifts, so as not to forget or offend anyone with inattention or a faceless gift bought in a hurry. Of course, you need to start the list with children, because for them a gift under the tree is not an ordinary formality, but a New Year’s miracle and magic.
3. We roughly determine what we want to give and to whom, based on the interests of each relative and a certain budget.
4. We go shopping with the list we received and carefully look for gifts.
5. We pack gifts.
6. And we hand it over.

And to complete the preparation of our New Year's to-do lists, it is very convenient to post them in a diary. Next to each task, we set the date for its implementation, and in accordance with this, we rewrote all the tasks in order, no longer by groups, but by dates. Firstly, this will help you avoid wasting time looking through lists every day; secondly, this way you won’t miss or forget anything; thirdly, it will be clearly visible whether you have overloaded any day, and you will be able to distribute your time more evenly between the planned tasks.

Planning during the holidays will help you not be late with congratulations and presenting gifts, which means that you and your loved ones will be in a truly magical mood.

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A visitor to our forum works in a production organization, the head of which, by his order, annually postpones holidays to other dates due to the seasonality of the business.

Employees are forced to obey the orders of the manager and do not always realize that there is a violation of labor laws.

However, in the case of our reader, an absurd situation arose. Having got a job on the first working day of January (according to the generally accepted production calendar), he received an incomplete salary, since the company has its own calendar and part of the January holidays are working days.

The director moved the January holidays to October and November by a strong-willed decision. On these autumn days, the whole company is resting, but our reader is forced to work, citing the fact that even before he was hired in early January, he was resting, when the rest of the company’s employees were working tirelessly.

I work in an organization in which its production calendar, namely holidays in January, February and March, were moved to Fridays in October and November, but the number of working days per year remained the same.
In connection with this, I had disagreements with the accounting department: I got a job on January 10, but all the workers had already worked for a week at that time. Since my salary for January was paid minus those days that I did not work based on my production schedule, everything seemed logical here, I did not find fault. But when they told me that I had to work on Fridays in October and November because I didn’t work in January because I hadn’t been hired yet, I was very surprised, and I wasn’t paid for those days either. I didn’t receive a full salary that month. Here it is not clear on what basis I should go out for free on weekends that are officially approved by the production calendar? What do you think about this, and what regulatory documents can I refer to when justifying my decision? —hfoen _

Participants in the discussion note that the director of the company arrogated to himself powers that no one had vested in him. Non-working holidays cannot be postponed in any cases, even by resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation; only weekends falling on holidays can be postponed, and then only by government resolution. It is not the employer's prerogative to transfer days off, unless summarized accounting of working hours has been established or other days of the week have not been established as days off, but this is not a transfer of days off, but the establishment of a different work schedule. The employer does not have the right to draw up his own production calendar.

You can join the discussion in the forum topic “Payroll in an organization that has its own production calendar.”

The authorities of 9 more regions declared December 31, 2020 a day off

The governors of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh and Penza regions, as well as the heads of Buryatia, Udmurtia, Kabardino-Balkaria and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, signed decrees and orders to postpone the working day from December 31 to December 28, 2020.

A number of regional heads held a vote on social networks among residents before making their decisions.

In addition, the authorities of Sevastopol also recommended moving the day off from December 28 to 31 in agreement with labor collectives.

Accordingly, to date, 25 regions have already decided that December 31, 2020 will become a day off.

Postponement of weekends at the end of December in Russian regions

In the regions of the country there really is a complete mess going on with the postponement of the weekend this December. Apparently, the governor of the Tomsk region became its unwitting culprit. It was he who first came up with the idea of ​​moving the working day in the region from December 31 (Tuesday) to the 28th of the same month (this will be Saturday). So Tomsk residents (and not all of them - the powers of the governor are limited) had the opportunity to calmly prepare for New Year's Eve.

Other regional heads liked this idea so much that a real parade of postponing the weekend from December 28 to the 31st began across the country. And a draft law was even submitted to the State Duma, according to which the government would be obliged to make December 31 of any year always a non-working day.

What’s interesting is that until recently this topic was of no particular concern to anyone. The last time December 31st was a working day was in 2020. Then the last day of the year fell on Thursday, and the Russians worked quietly, and in the evening they rushed home to complete preparations for the noisiest night of the year.

In 2016-2018, December 31 was non-working due to the peculiarities of the calendar. It either fell on a weekend or fell on a Monday (last year). According to Russian standards, one single working day between regular weekends and holidays is unacceptable. It's still of little use. Therefore, in 2020, the government moved the working day for everyone to Saturday, December 29.

At the moment, the list of Russian regions that organized the transfer of the working day from December 31 to December 28 contains more than 30 lines. And this list is updated daily. We will not present it here, otherwise it will quickly lose relevance. We have created a special page that is constantly updated - the latest list of regions where the holiday will be postponed in December 2020 can be studied there.

The problem is that the inclusion of your region in the list and the corresponding decision of the governor on the transfer does not mean that December 28 will be a working day (and December 31 a non-working day) for you.