!!!Feiertage

Official Holidays, in Austria: January 1 (New Year´s Day), 
January 6 (Epiphany), Easter Monday, May 1 ( May Day, Staatsfeiertag), 
Feast of the Ascension, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, August 15 
(Assumption of the Virgin), October 26 ( National Holiday), November 1 
(All Saint´s Day), December 8 (Immaculate Conception), December 
25 (First Day of Christmas) and December 26 (Boxing Day), for 
Protestants, Methodists and Old Catholics also Good Friday, but 
excluding Reformation Day (October 31). Provincial holidays are school 
holidays and holidays for members of certain occupations.  Official 
Holidays, Provincial .

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According to the Law on Sunday and Holiday Observance of 1983 
(Feiertagsruhe-Gesetz) the total time spent not working on the weekend 
is to amount to 36 continuous hours and begin on Saturday at 1 p.m. at 
the latest. Several exceptions are allowed, for instance, for shift 
work, construction, newspapers, hotels, bakers, actors. Leave is also 
to be granted for the fulfilment of religious duties. On official 
holidays all government offices and courts of law are closed, as are 
all schools. Allowance is also made for religious holidays of faiths 
other than Christian (Islam, Judaism) in public offices and for 
examinations.

!Literature
H. Floretta, K. Spielbuechler and R. Strasser, 
Arbeitsrecht, 1984.


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