December 31 may become a permanent holiday, but the total number of public holidays in Russia will not be increased. About this in an interview with the newspaper “Izvestia” said head of the Ministry of Labor Anton Kotyakov.
“In the future, if we make a decision on December 31, I think we will look for reserves within the already existing number of holidays without increasing them,” he explained. Kotyakov explained that Russians can be given the opportunity to rest on December 31 at the expense of other holidays, because there is a certain ratio of the number of workers to the number of non-working days.
In what cases does December 31 become a day off now?
Today, in most cases, December 31 is a working day, unless it falls on a Saturday or Sunday.
Will December 31 be a weekend in 2021?
Yes. In 2021, December 31 will enter the ten-day New Year’s holiday. They will last until January 9, inclusive.
How do the authorities comment on the possibility of making December 31 a permanent day off?
In December 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin he called on the governors to independently declare December 31 a day off. & laquo; Rest not work & mdash;one holiday more, one less. But on the 31st, a very peculiar work is already being organized, to put it mildly, ” the head of state noted. He also added that at the federal level, it is impossible to declare December 31 a weekend in such a short time.
Then they declared a weekend on December 31 and moved the working day to the previous Saturday in such regions as Buryatia, Tuva, Kamchatka, Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Stavropol, Crimea, Vladimir, Kursk, Belgorod and Volgograd regions, St. Petersburg, etc. In some regions of the country, the last day of the outgoing year was a day off for civil servants. This decision was made, for example, by the authorities of Moscow, Kirov and Ulyanovsk regions.
In June, the possibility of making December 31 a permanent day off was announced by member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans ‘ Affairs Svetlana Bessarab. “In my opinion, if we simply rearrange some of the holidays and from December 31 to January 7, Russians will necessarily be on New Year’s holidays, this will satisfy all parties,” she told RT.Previously head of the Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy and veterans affairs & nbsp;Yaroslav Nilov also stated that December 31 should be fixed in the Labor Code as a day off. According to him, the relevant amendments can be considered at the autumn session of the State Duma.