Bryan Carbonnell
Bryan_Carbonnell at cbc.ca
Thu Apr 15 08:20:07 CDT 2004
Here in Canada it is usually the closest business day that becomes the holiday. So if the holiday fall on Saturday, the observed holiday is the Friday previous. If the holiday falls on a Sunday, then the observed day is the Monday. Now to add to complication, if the place of employement has a union collective agreement, that may make the descision which day is observed at that particular company. Where I work, my collective agreement used to state that the observed day must be in the same work week as the week that the holiday fell. Since our work week is Monday to Sunday, all of our observed holidays would be on the Friday (or Thursday and Friday if both weekend days were holidays). So we would be closed when other businesses were open and open when everyone else was closed. I think that it has now changed, but I'm not 100% sure. Bryan Carbonnell bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca >>> gustav at cactus.dk 15-Apr-04 5:36:22 AM >>> Thanks for all the responses! > The day that people actually "have off" But is this a commom business rule in US and UK or is just an arrangement for the embassies? And is there "a rule"? I notice that for Christmas Day you have two different Day Observed - looks like UK picks the proceeding workday while US picks the following workday. Here it is just "bad luck" for the citizens if a fixed date public holiday falls within a weekend or collides with a moveable holiday. /gustav > What is the meaning of the column "Day Observed" here: > http://www.usembassy.org.uk/ukpubhol.html > Look for example at the second and third last entry.