What are the legal holidays in Hong Kong?

Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10 month 1 day 65438+ 10 month/Gregorian New Year, also known as New Year's Day. On the first day of the first lunar month, the Gregorian calendar is 65438+1from late October to late February. Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival and China New Year. The second day of the first lunar month, the second day of the second lunar month, the third day of the first lunar month, the third day of the third lunar month and the fourth day of April of the Gregorian calendar. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a solar term after the vernal equinox, and traditionally it is a day to worship ancestors. Good Friday is not a legal holiday. From the end of March to the end of April in Gregorian calendar, it depends on the Easter calculation table. Easter falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar calendar after the vernal equinox (full moon) and the first Sunday after that. The actual holidays are Good Friday (Friday and Saturday) two days before Easter, the day after Good Friday, and Easter Monday (Monday) the next day. Generally speaking, there is no mention of Good Friday, but these three festivals are collectively called Easter. The day after Good Friday, Easter Monday, May in Gregorian calendar 1, Labor Day, the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Buddha's birthday is not a legal holiday. Usually in May of the solar calendar. Also known as the Bath Buddha Festival. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, usually from late May to late June in the solar calendar. On July 1 Gregorian calendar, the anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is also called the anniversary of the return of Hong Kong. The day after the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16 of the lunar calendar is from the middle of September to the beginning of 10 of the Gregorian calendar. Gregorian calendar 10 June 1 National Day The Double Ninth Festival of the ninth lunar month usually lasts from the tenth day of 10 to the tenth day of10. Traditionally, it was a day to climb mountains, but later it evolved into a day to worship ancestors while climbing mountains, so it is another day to worship ancestors outside Tomb-Sweeping Day. Gregorian calendar 65438+February 25th Christmas Gregorian calendar 65438+February 26th The first Sunday after Christmas is not a legal holiday. "Sunday" does not mean Sunday, but a direct translation of English weekday (the English name of this day by the government is the first working day after Christmas). It is usually called Boxing Day. Editor: Nominally, Hong Kong has 17 public holidays (commonly known as "bank holidays", "office holidays", "scarlet letter" and "red sun") except Sundays. ) annually, but according to Article 2 of the General Holidays Ordinance (Chapter 65,438+049). If the above-mentioned organizations are not bound by the General Holidays Ordinance, the holidays of their employees are only protected by the Employment Ordinance (Cap. 57). Article 39 "Granting Holidays" only stipulates that 12 public holiday is a holiday that the employer must give to the workers. This 12 day is called legal holiday (commonly known as "labor holiday" and "factory holiday"). These include: 65438+1 October1,the first to third day of the Lunar New Year, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, the anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, Chung Yeung Festival, Winter solstice or Christmas (whichever date the employer chooses). Any employee can enjoy legal holidays. If the statutory holiday falls on the rest day of workers (that is, a weekly holiday, usually Sunday), it should be made up on the day after the rest day. Make-up holidays should not be legal holidays, substitute holidays or rest days. If an employee has been employed under a continuous contract for three months, he can enjoy holiday pay equal to the employee's normal salary on that day. If an employer requires a worker to work on a statutory holiday, it must notify the worker at least 48 hours in advance and arrange another holiday for the worker within 20 days before and after the statutory holiday. If both parties agree, the employer may arrange for workers to take compensatory time off within 30 days of legal holidays or other holidays. In other words, Good Friday, the day after Good Friday, Monday after Easter, Buddha's Birthday and the first Sunday after Christmas are "public holidays that are not legal holidays". If the employer is not an organization designated by the General Holidays Ordinance, and it is not specified in the employment contract that the employee is a general holiday, he has the right to require the employee to go to work as usual on the above-mentioned "non-statutory public holidays" without having to be given compensatory leave. Therefore, the so-called general holiday is actually just an extra benefit for the general public, not a real "general" holiday. This extremely unfair two-day holiday system has been criticized for many years. However, Hong Kong businessmen are the masters, and the working class itself is not United. Some employees who are lucky enough to enjoy public holidays even scoff at employees who only get legal holidays, saying that they are forced to accept legal holidays because of lack of education, skills and competitiveness [2][3][4]. What's more, even a few Legislative Councillors who claim to represent workers rarely raise objections to the Government. Therefore, the government has no intention to change this extremely unfair phenomenon. Theoretically, if an organization is not designated by the General Holidays Ordinance, any employer can choose to grant employees general holidays or statutory holidays. According to unwritten tradition, in addition to the institutions designated by the General Holidays Ordinance, only industries commonly known as "white-collar workers" (mainly office clerks) can enjoy public holidays, and only industries commonly known as "blue-collar workers" (traditionally referring to the second industry, now generally referring to most jobs other than "white-collar workers") can enjoy legal holidays, such as manufacturing, construction, textile, maintenance, engineering, media and In recent years, statutory holidays have a tendency to extend to "white-collar" industries. After the handover of sovereignty in Hong Kong from 65438 to 0997, the unemployment rate soared. Some employers who originally granted general holidays, aware of the difficulties of their employees in finding jobs, dare not resist their unreasonable demands, so they only granted statutory holidays instead to increase their employees' working hours without raising their salaries. Even the Government, which has always been the largest employer of public holidays, has only granted statutory holidays to some non-civil service contract employees in recent years. Coupled with Hong Kong's economic model and job distribution in the job market, the customer service industry has gradually become the mainstay. Therefore, from the above aspects, there is an increasing trend of employees who can only enjoy legal holidays. How to deal with public holidays which fall on Saturdays, Sundays and other public holidays? If public holidays fall on Saturdays, even if day five is implemented, there will be no compensatory holidays. If it falls on a Sunday at the same time, compensation will be made on the next day, except for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Double Ninth Festival and the first to third day of the Lunar New Year. If the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival is Sunday, it is the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival. If the day after Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the same day as National Day, the Chief Executive in Council will publish an order in the Gazette to designate another day to replace that day. If the Chung Yeung Festival falls on a Sunday, the following day is usually regarded as a supplementary holiday, but the Chief Executive in Council may also publish an order in the Gazette to designate that day as a supplementary holiday. If any day from the first day to the third day of the lunar new year falls on a Sunday, the day before the first day of the lunar new year will be compensated. In other words, if the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Sunday, we will take a rest on Saturday. If the first day of the Lunar New Year is Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then one of the three holidays from the first day to the third day of the Lunar New Year must be Saturday. For employees who rest on Saturday or work for half a day, it is undoubtedly a one-day or half-day holiday. Similarly, because the day after Good Friday must be Saturday, employees who rest or work for half a day on Saturday can't really have a 17 day holiday even if they are lucky enough to be granted a nominal annual public holiday by their employers.