Do you know there are 3 plans of 2014 Chinese National Holidays? Let's start to talk about them now.
Three of the holidays are simple, Qingming, Duanwu and Mid-Autumn Festivals are straight up Monday off work. Three day weekends with no make up work days on the weekends. Brilliant.
Now it gets a little interesting. For Chinese New Year we’ll potentially be working the extra Sunday before and the Saturday after the holiday. So before a full 7 days of holiday we’ll have a 1 day weekend, 4 days of work, 7 days off, then after another 3 day work week with a 1 day weekend! Lets look at that another way:
5 days work (normal work week)
1 day off (Saturday)
4 days work
7 days off
3 days work
1 day off (Sunday)
5 days work (normal work week)
Confused? Me too!
Moving on, May Day (Labor Day), is a little disappointing with a work day on the Sunday following the 3 day holiday (Thursday to Saturday), which gives us a 6 day workweek after a long (but too short) weekend holiday.
Now for the good stuff. For next year’s National Day, on October 1, there are three “proposed” plans that offer 3 days, 5 days and 7 days off:
The 7 day plan is the only one that shows working weekends, with a similar set up as the Chinese New Year plan. For this proposal they haven’t counted the weekend as holiday, but added 2 more days holiday from the following week, making 7 days off total. But of course you make up for it by working weekends before and after. So it looks a bit like this:
5 days work (normal work week)
1 day off (Saturday)
3 days work
7 days off
4 days work
1 day off (Sunday)
5 days work (normal work week)
The 3 and the 5 day plans don’t count the weekend as the holiday, so you don’t have to make up any “extra” days on the weekend. The 3 day holiday is only for Wednesday-Friday, then a normal weekend. But the 5 day holiday is Wednesday-Sunday. Isn’t that the same thing? …Yup.
Hoped that helps clear everything up!
Check out the image below to help make more sense of it or check out from: http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1127/c1001-23664133.html
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