The main document that will help you understand the dates on which the weekends fall in February 2019 and how we rest is the production calendar. This is a document with state status. It is processed annually to ensure the most optimal processes in the enterprise. The calendar is used by almost all enterprises and helps determine how to carry out work and provide rest, including how many days of rest we have on February 23, 2019.

Work calendar

To answer the question of how we relax on February 23, 2019, let’s look at the document in more detail. The second winter month is the shortest, including:

• for a 5-day week: 28 days, of which 20 are work days, 8 are weekends;
• for a 6-day week: 28 days, of which 23 are work days, 5 are weekends.

As a result, how many days we rest in February 2019 is determined by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, administrative documents of the Government of the Russian Federation and.

Holidays in February

The list of holidays that are non-working for Russians is established by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation in Art. 112. Among them is Defender of the Fatherland Day 2019 (we’ll tell you more about how we relax later). This date is indicated in the production calendar.

Public holidays

The Labor Code of the Russian Federation allows the Government of the Russian Federation to postpone weekends and non-working holidays to other days. This is possible to optimize labor and rationally alternate periods of work and rest.

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated October 1, 2018 No. 1163 adjusted a number of dates for 2019 and moved the non-working day from 23.02 (Saturday) to 10.05 (Friday).

Long weekend

If an employee works a five-day week, it will work out like this:

• 23.02 - day of rest (Saturday, officially established non-working holiday Defender of the Fatherland Day);
• 24.02 - rest day (Sunday).

This is the schedule for mode 5 through 2. But for mode 6 through 1, the schedule looks like this:

• 22.02 - Labor Day (Friday, reduced by 1 hour);
• 23.02 - non-working day (Saturday, officially established non-working holiday Defender of the Fatherland Day);
• 24.02 is a non-working day (Sunday).

Thus, work and rest in both considered modes are the same.

Working time standards

Order of the Ministry of Health dated August 13, 2009 No. 588n defines the rule for calculating the labor standard, which depends on the duration of work in a 5-day schedule, including two days of rest (Saturday, Sunday), based on the period of daily work. This means that:

• 40-hour work week - 8 hours per day;
• 36-hour - 7.2 hours;
• 24-hour - 4.8 hours.

Labor Code of the Russian Federation in Art. 95 defines a reduction in the duration of work on the day preceding the holiday, that is, this date will be 02/22/2019.

The second winter month with a 5-day working week, including two days off, will consist of 20 working days and 8 non-working days.

The standard working time will be:

In general, the working hours in 2019 are as follows:

In 2019, a 5-day work schedule (with two days off) includes 247 rubles. days, including 6 shortened by 1 hour, and 118 days of rest.

After numerous New Year's holidays in January, February 2019 comes, in which there is a traditional additional day off - February 23, Defender of the Fatherland Day. And we are increasingly interested in the question: how do we relax on February 23, 2019, so that we can go to the dacha and work in the garden.

February 23 is the main men's holiday of 2019. In addition, Defender of the Fatherland Day is a public holiday and an additional official holiday day off.

How to relax on February 23 in Russia

February 23rd falls on a Saturday this year. It is followed by only one calendar day off - Sunday.

Thus, on Defender of the Fatherland Day we will rest for only two days in a row.

At the same time, Friday, February 22, is a pre-holiday day, and in many organizations on February 22 there will be a shortened working day.

Reduced working hours and production standards in February 2019

In February we will have one single shortened working day, on the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day. Frankly speaking, many enterprises (except for sensitive ones, of course) organize corporate holidays on this day and congratulate their employees.

The pre-holiday bustle reigns in offices and shops; on the eve of the celebration it is difficult to talk about high-quality work processes, however, the labor calendar remains on the side of employers and February 22 this year remains working.

According to the Russian production calendar, in February 2019 there were 20 workers in the country (including 1 laid-off worker) and 8 days off and holidays.

Standard working hours:

• with a 40-hour work week - 159 hours (20 x 8 - 1, where 20 is the number of working days, 8 is the duration of the work shift, 1 is the number of shortened working days);
• at 36 hours – 143 hours (20 x 7.2 – 1);
• at 24-hour – 95 hours (20 x 4.8 – 1).

Why there won't be a long weekend in February 2019

The national holiday Defender of the Fatherland Day is celebrated on February 23. This is an official non-working holiday.

In 2019 it falls on a Saturday. If a public holiday falls on Saturday or Sunday, then the day off is transferred to the next working day (Article 112 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation).

However, according to the Decree of the Russian Federation dated October 1, 2018 “On the postponement of holidays in 2019”, the holiday on February 23 is postponed to May 10. Therefore, Monday February 25th will be a working day.

It became known that in 2018, Russians, in addition to vacations and “regular” weekends, will have an intensive rest for another 28 days. Full vacation, and paid. This luxury was a consequence of the postponement of weekends due to holidays.

The Commission for the Regulation of Social and Labor Relations supported the draft resolution of the Russian government on the postponement of holidays in 2018. In this regard, Russians will have substantial New Year holidays, “long” holidays on February 23 and March 8, quite decent May holidays, and will also have the opportunity to relax in June and November.

How to relax for the New Year

New Year holidays 2017-2018 will be ten days - from Saturday, December 30, 2017, to Monday, January 8, 2018, inclusive. Thus, the last official working day will be Friday, December 29, and the first working day of the new 2018 will be Tuesday, January 9. Here, as doctors warn, the main thing is to correctly calculate your strength and not get carried away with strong drinks with fatty, high-calorie snacks.

Defender of the Fatherland Day February 23

On Defender of the Fatherland Day Russians will be able to rest for three days - from Friday, February 23, until Sunday, February 25, inclusive. This is convenient because you don’t have to go to work straight from the holiday table.

Women's Day March 8

Women will also be lucky in 2018, at least as far as their holiday is concerned. Traditionally popular in Russia International Women's Day we have to walk and relax for four whole days - from Thursday, March 8, to Sunday, March 11. This is very convenient, because, as after Defender of the Fatherland Day, you don’t have to “get up to the bench” immediately after the hectic celebration.

May beds

The start of the dacha season will also be successful for Russians - on May 1 Russians will be given four days off at once, and this is not counting the lonely May 9.

The May holidays will begin on Sunday, April 29 (Saturday, April 28, you will have to work) and will last four days - until May 2 inclusive.

On Russia Day, which is celebrated on June 12, you will also be able to relax longer - the small summer holidays for working Russians will last from Sunday, June 10, to Wednesday, June 12, inclusive. You will have to work for this on Saturday, June 9th.

Although November 7 It’s not a day off in Russia for a long time, but you can’t cancel the habit of celebrating in the middle of autumn, so we have a holiday National Unity Day, which is celebrated on November 4th. Due to the fact that next year November 4 falls on a Sunday, the Russians were compensated for this loss. Therefore, we will have a rest from Friday, November 3, to Monday, November 5, inclusive.

And there, as they say, the New Year is just around the corner, and, judging by the calendar, from December 29-30, 2018, Russia will again go on a ten-day New Year holiday.

Who is the laziest

Russia ranks first in the world in the number of non-working days. Russians annually receive 40 paid non-working days, consisting of 28 days of vacation and 12 days off due to public holidays.

In second place among those who like to relax are Italy and Sweden; citizens of these countries vacation for 36 days.

Next come residents of Brazil, Norway, Finland and France, who each have 35 days off.

In last place is Mexico, where there are only seven days of paid leave plus six holidays.

In China it’s a little better - a five-day vacation plus 11 days of holidays.

In the USA - ten days vacation and ten days of public holidays.

In terms of vacation duration, Russia is in second place (28 days), second only to Brazil, where workers rest for 30 days.

Although February and March are not very rich in public holidays, these months still have two “red” dates on the calendar. And Russians are looking forward to them with great impatience. These are men's and women's holidays.

How to relax on February 23 and March 8 in 2018 in Russia: Weekend schedule, calendar

It goes without saying that Defender of the Fatherland Day and International Women's Day are holiday weekends. Now we’ll tell you how many days in a row we’ll rest. February 23rd falls on Friday this year. It is followed by two calendar days off - Saturday and Sunday. Thus, on Defender of the Fatherland Day we will rest for three whole days in a row. Moreover, Thursday, February 22, is a pre-holiday day. You can legally leave work an hour early. And on the occasion of International Women's Day, Russians are looking forward to a big weekend.

We will rest and relax from March 8 to 11, 2018. The Russian government, drawing up the production calendar, resorted to a postponement. This gave me an extra day off. Thus, the day off from Saturday, January 6 has been moved to Friday, March 9. Let us add that March 7 is considered a pre-holiday day in the working calendar, therefore, the duration of work is reduced by one hour.

Production calendar 2018 with holidays and weekends, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation

Taking into account the postponement of holidays, the 2018 calendar includes six long weekends and holidays:

• from February 23 to 25 (3 days on the occasion of Defender of the Fatherland Day);
• from March 8 to 11 (4 days dedicated to International Women's Day);
• from April 29 to May 2 (4 days to celebrate the Spring and Labor Festival);
• from June 10 to 12 (3 days to celebrate Russia Day);
• from November 3 to 5 (3 days dedicated to National Unity Day).
• One holiday - May 9 in honor of Victory Day - will be a rest day during the week.

At the end of February - beginning of March, Russia traditionally celebrates two consecutive “gender” holidays, when women and men congratulate each other on holidays based on their gender. Both holidays, both men's and women's, are official days off in Russia, so it is always interesting how exactly the weekend falls in a given year. How will we rest on February 23, 2018 - the weekend schedule in February 2018 according to the government-approved production calendar.

At the end of February, Russians will have a short week with three days off in a row.

First of all, the schedule of weekends and working days in connection with a particular holiday depends, of course, on what day of the week a particular holiday falls on in a particular year.

For example, in cases where a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, most often the additional day off is not burned at all, and Russians rest on the coming Monday. In rare cases, this day off is moved to another day of the calendar, sometimes even to the next month.

If a holiday falls on Tuesday or Thursday, then usually Monday or Friday are also made a day off, respectively. This is done to avoid having just one working day surrounded by weekends. In most cases, such a working day turns out to be meaningless, and people’s labor productivity is low. It is clear that an extra day off on Monday or Friday in such cases does not come out of nowhere; usually you have to work it off on one of the next Saturdays.

A holiday falling on a Wednesday most often simply divides the work week into two parts: two working days before the holiday and two after.

This is what happened this time on February 23rd. This day in 2018 falls on Friday, which means we will simply rest for three days in a row - from 23 to 25 February.

February 22 will be a short working day

Please note that the last day of the short, four-day work week (February 19 to 22), Thursday February 22, will also be a short day. The production calendar for 2018, approved by the government, implies that on this day the work shift is reduced from eight hours to seven.

Workers can go home one hour earlier or, if the team decides so, this hour will be devoted to congratulations to men by women and a small festive feast by the work team.