Paid Vacation...Lots of them :)

Here is a list of days in November 2007- November 2008 that our office will be closed for holidays.

5 November (Monday) - holiday

30 December 2007 - 8 January 2008 New Year holidays

25 Feb (Monday) - Defender’s Day

10 Mar (Monday) - Women’s Day

1-2 May (Thursday - Saturday) - Spring Fest

9 May (Friday) - Victory Day

12 June (Thursday) - Day of Russia

Total Paid Holidays: 17 days

As you can tell we have quite a few holidays in Russia. All working people in Russia are also entitled to 1 month of paid vacation. This is so different from what US has to offer. When I worked at Graco we had 2 weeks of paid vacation and a hand-full of Days off. Russia is a whole different story. I have 1 month of paid vacation, plus another 17 days that fall under paid holidays. I am thinking that I am liking it here :)

Some of the days mentioned above fall on the weekends, like Women’s Day is actually March 8, but since March 8 is Saturday (non-working day), then the holiday transfers to Monday :)

I have told most people that Russia has more paid holidays than US, but I did not know what they all were. Now, I do (I took these dates from the list that HR distributed to all the employees).