It depends if you normally work on weekends.
If you don't normally work weekends there would be no point getting paid for a day you don't normally work. Normally holidays are moved to a Friday or Monday out of convenience, but how you get paid for certain days is up to the company and their policies. If you're wondering about Christmas in 2010, don't count on getting a paid Saturday. You can always take a "floating holiday" or a "personal day" on the Monday afterwards, depending your company's policy.
so people can have a three day weekend, rather than a weekend and then work and then in the middle of the week have another day off
Each countries has a different set of public holidays and separate rules for the holidays. Usually if a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday becomes a holiday.
Canada Post is closed on federal holidays and other days which have been defined by the Postal Employees' Union as holidays. This means that the Post Office can be closed on days which are not holidays (the Monday after Easter, for example), and open on days which are provincial holidays.
Cyber Monday is the Monday following the Thanksgiving weekend in the United States. There are many sales, promotions and good deals you can find online when shopping at your regular shopping sites.
here are the observed Holidays for Randstad USA; New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. If the holiday falls on a Saturday, it is paid the Friday before. If the holiday falls on a Sunday, it is paid the Monday following.
Yes because the day before Monday is Sunday and Sunday is a weekend day.
The Uniform Monday Holiday Bill was enacted in 1968 to make several three-day weekends for federal employees by moving certain holidays from their original date to a Monday. It went into effect in 1971. Memorial Day was one of the holidays so affected and the date of its observation was moved from May 30th to the last Monday in May, whatever date that is.
Since Thanksgiving is on a Monday in Canada, it is a 3 day weekend consisting of Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
president day Actually, there is no official "Presidents Day" - it is still officially "Washington's Birthday." Prior to MLK Day, there was Lincoln's Birthday in early February (February 12th) and Washington's Birthday on the third Monday in February. Many holidays were changed to be on a Monday after passage of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act by Congress. Constitutionally, there are no "national holidays" in the United States because Congress only has authority to create holidays for federal institutions (including federally owned properties) and employees, and for the District of Columbia. Instead, there are federal holidays, state holidays, city holidays, and so on.
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Canada's holiday Monday in May is held on May 24th, or the Monday before May 24th if May 24th is not a Monday. The holiday is called "Victoria Day" in memory of the late Queen Victoria, our longest reigning Monarch.
Some common prepositional phrases are the following: at home on time by Monday with John and Sally in the morning over the weekend from time to time