Did anyone manage to find a definitive list of which cantons are on holiday tomorrow? Wikipedia suggests that several are not having Labour Day, but do still have religious holidays (e.g. Zug).
For those that live in Zurich, do you normally expect a holiday Saturday to be "more shut" than Sunday, or about the same?
So.. that's odd. Almost every canton is on holiday tomorrow for various reasons, right? There wasn't any kind of information in Coop Zug about earlier/later closing or being shut tomorrow, which there usually is.
I was expecting holiday Saturday might be slightly more shut than Sunday, as people differentiate "holiday" from normal limited opening on Sunday. Does this normally apply to bars at night too? i.e. Niederdorf will be dead?
Is Slaphead implying something about these protests I've heard rumours about?
Ah, good, thanks & sorry; I went through "all cantons" -> each individual holiday on 1st May and misread Zug as celebrating one of these as Wiki suggests.
Great, just checked the calendar and, apart from next week when there's a canton specific holiday, there are no more public holidays that fall outside of the weekend until next Easter - at least for me.
That should help inflate Swiss productivity figures - the beancounters must be having a field day - I can just imagine them totting up the extra 1.2735% of additional work time. Or will one or two people take an extra sick day? I anticipate there will be a quite significant outbreak of 'colds' around Christmas time this year!
Sort of roughly looked through this one. Oh you lucky people living on the borders, in places with airports.
Although living in the Kanton of Solothurn also has its advantages if you also happen to work there. In my working days I quickly noticed how Swiss the swiss were when it came to holidays at the week-end. No you do not compensate - you have had bad luck because you don't get the extra day off.
Kanton Solothurn is catholic, so we get all the extra catholic holidays. Of course the shops are all closed, but Switzerland being small, you have perhaps a ten minute drive to the next Kanton where the shops are open - usually Bern.
On the other hand my Swiss husband worked in the Kanton of Bern - poor bloke. While I was relaxing in the sun or reading a book in the Winter, he was slaving away at work in his non catholic holiday kanton of Bern.
I heard once that the Japanese also do not compensate if their holidays fall on a week-end - so we are not alone. Now being retired, it doesn't really bother me anyhow. life is one big holiday I suppose. But being Swiss and a half we do tend to treat the week-ends as week-ends.
So this year it seems like all public holidays over Christmas are falling on a weekend! What a bummer..
What are the rules on this? I had the impression somehow that if it falls on a Saturday you have no luck, but if it falls on a Sunday you have the Monday off?