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For 2024, Chinese New Year’s Eve is not included in the official holiday calendar, although employers are encouraged to arrange paid leave for employees that day. We provide the 2024 public holiday schedule in this article, state the compensatory working days, and explain the difference in overtime payment for public holidays and the adjusted New Year. January 1, 2025 (one rest day) Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) January 28 and February 4, 2025 (eight rest days in total) Adjusted working days: January 26, 2025 (Sunday) and February 8, 2025 (Saturday) Tomb Sweeping Festival (Ching Ming Festival) April 4 to April 6, 2025 (three rest days in total, in connection with two weekend Additional Special (Non-Working) Days: Chinese New Year - January 29 (Wednesday) Black Saturday - April 19; Christmas Eve - December 24 (Wednesday) All Saints' Day Eve - October 31 (Friday) In a The Spring Festival falls between 10 and 17 February, 2024. The Chinese New Year’s Eve (9 February, 2024) is labeled as a working day on the official schedule. However, employers are encouraged to arrange paid leave for employees on that day. Adjusted working days are 4 February, 2024 (Sunday) and 18 February, 2024 (Sunday). Chinese lanterns hang over the activity area of a mall in Quezon City on Jan. 22, 2025, adding a vibrant touch to the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration. The DOLE said the "no work, no pay" principle applies to private sector employees on Chinese New Year, a special non-working day. (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA – Private February 2024: Chinese New Year Saturday, Feb 10 to Sunday, Feb 17 Make-up work days: Sun, Feb 4; Sun, Feb 18 The first of the make-up days of 2024 come with Chinese New Year, with one occuring prior CNY on Sunday, Feb 4, and one a day after on Sunday, Feb 18. Be ready for six-day work weeks before and after the holiday. In 2014, Chinese New Year's Eve was not a holiday; however, following severe backlash that year, every Chinese New Year's Eve has been a public holiday since 2015. This is why, although it is within the law not to have a holiday on Chinese New Year's Eve, most people would find this extremely unreasonable and inconsiderate. Chinese New Year’s Day: January 29, 2025 The Lantern Festival : February 12, 2025 This public holiday results in seven days off of work for employees (as a public holiday, Chinese people will get January 28 through February 3, 2025 off), though celebrations can last for more than two weeks. 4. Work on a Rest Day: If the special day coincides with an employee’s rest day, they are entitled to an additional 50% of their basic wage for the first eight hours, computed as Basic wage × The additional day off for Chinese New Year’s Eve now results in a total of eight consecutive days off of work for employees (as a public holiday, Chinese people will get January 28 through February 4, 2025 off) and is a meaningful step toward alleviating some of this pressure for employees. Lunar New Year is a festival beyond compare. Technically it’s a week—determined by the lunar calendar but always late January to mid-February—but for many, Chunjie (Spring Festival) is more Wednesday, Jan. 29 may not be a federal holiday, but the day — Asian Lunar New Year — is a New York public school holiday. The one-day observance — which varies each year and typically comes Chinese People regard their right practice during Chinese New Year as an omen of luck for the coming year. Not only observing the festival by adhering to ancient rules, they would also try to avoid violating various taboos. Some of those Chinese New Year taboos will only sustain for first few days of the festival, while others may be kept till Secular holiday : At New Year during the night, the Jade Emperor conveyed all animals. Only 12 showed up. To thank them, Buddha dedicated one symbolic year per visitor. Each new born would inherit the relevant animal's characteristics. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday How long are the Chinese New Year festivities? Chinese New Year in 2025 falls on January 29 and ends with the Lantern Festival on Feb. 12. Celebrations last up to 16 days; the Chinese public Chinese Lunar New Year 2025: Start the Chinese New Year on a positive note by following these do's and don'ts, from gifting money to other traditions. Chinese Lunar New Year 2025 is on January 29 Chinese New Year: When scheduling holiday leave for Chinese New Year, administrators look for at least seven consecutive days off. Two special working days are added before and/or after the holiday. Here’s the schedule for CNY 2024 as a reference, with holidays in teal and special workdays in red: Celebrations of Chinese New Year traditionally last for 16 days, starting from Chinese New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival. The public holiday in 2025 is from January 28th to February 4th, lasting 8 days. While not specifically tied to the New Year, Laméris’s poem honors the small acts of kindness that bring warmth and connection—values central to Lunar New Year traditions such as a traditional “reunion dinner” where families gather and celebrate their hopes for the new year. “I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk Malacañang released on Thursday the list of 2025 holidays- regular and special non-working days, according to Proclamation No. 727. New Year’s Day – 1 January (Wednesday) Chinese New
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