December 29 abbreviated

Only a few days are left before the New Year and the Russians expect a long vacation in January 2019. Now all the inhabitants of the Russian Federation are busy preparing for the New Year and very often the question arises - when is the last working day?

Will I have to work on December 31 or leave on Saturday, December 29? You will find answers to all these questions in our article.

December 29 shortened or full time? -according to the decree of the Russian Federation on December 29, a shortened working day by one hour.

December 29, 2018 will be a full or shortened working day

The approaching year of the yellow earthen Pig according to the eastern calendar justifies its characterization of the year of good luck, stability and prosperity, since it starts to bring the Russians in advance, even before the beginning of the New Year 2019. Namely, the long New Year holidays will start in Russia not at the same time as the new year (as it sometimes happens), and two days before his arrival, and will last as long as ten days.

Residents of Russia will begin to relax and prepare for the upcoming holidays from Sunday December 30, 2018. Following Monday, December 31, 2018 is also a non-working day, because the day off from Saturday December 29, 2018 has been transferred to it.

But on Saturday, December 29, 2018, everyone will have to work, and not just the “six-day workers”. Fortunately, by law, the last business day of the year will be shortened (shortened by 1 hour). This happens because Monday, December 31, 2018, to which the day off from Saturday is postponed, precedes the holiday.

December 29 shorter working hours for how many hours

The reduced pre-holiday day according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation is the day immediately preceding the non-working holiday. As a general rule, the length of a working day or a shift on a pre-holiday day under labor law is reduced by one hour (Article 95 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation).



And if the holiday is preceded by a day off - according to the calendar or work schedule, then the duration of the last working day before the day off is not reduced.

Who has a shortened day December 29

If December 29 is on a weekday, then in any case you will have to work 1 hour less, since this is a pre-holiday day. While January 1 is an official day off, such a system will be valid for both Monday and Wednesday with Thursday and Friday. Between 2018 and 2019 was not an exception to this rule, however, it should be remembered that there are professions that require shift work, including round-the-clock shifts. The law on reducing the holiday day by one hour does not apply to them.

When does the New Year break begin?

On the territory of the Russian Federation, New Year begins on January 1. Before this holiday, which is celebrated in all corners of the country, 2 days will be allocated that do not provide for a visit to the workplace - on the 30th and 31st. In order to provide the opportunity to relax on New Year's day, it was decided to postpone the working day from December 31, 2018 to December 29.

Labor legislation, which regulates leisure standards for citizens, contains data on holidays. Representatives of the government and the Ministry of Labor took care of how we work in December, having developed special documents. The answer to the question of whether December 29, 2018 is a shortened working day or not is contained in the production calendar.

The Ministry of Labor prepares it annually. The document noted that the 29th is a shortened working day. How we work in December 2018, and whether December 31 is a day off or not, is also written in the production calendar.

The work shift that falls on the day before the holiday is shortened. Changes were introduced in order to rationally use the work process and not to bring citizens to work places before long New Year holidays.

People who work on December 29, 2018 will be able to leave home one hour earlier. After this number, there will be a day off, December 30. It is a non-working day in accordance with the calendar and marks the beginning of long New Year holidays, which will end on January 9, 2019, on Wednesday.

The thing is that they decided to postpone the working day from December 31, 2018 (falls on Monday) to Saturday December 29.

December 29, 2018 will be a shorter working day, we work one hour less, because it will be a pre-holiday day.

Thus, the government went to a meeting working, so that people have time to prepare for the celebration of the New Year.

Although December 29th falls on Saturday, it will be a working day, because it is a shift of the working day from December 31st, which falls on Monday. And December 31 is always considered to be a shorter day, therefore December 29, 2018 will be abridged  schedule. On pre-holiday days, they usually do a shortened day everywhere, so I only favor with both hands, I'm glad that this year is such a calendar. And then usually the 31st you run home headlong, and then there will be a good rest.

As far as I know, on Saturday, December 29, 2018, all Russian five-day workers will work on Monday, December 31, 2018, so that they then have inextricable weekends and holidays. Thus, Saturday, December 29, 2018, will be an abbreviated working day for exactly one hour, since it is a working day rescheduled from the holiday.

December 29, 2018 - is it shortened or full time? Why?

The thirty-first falls on Monday and has always been a holiday.

Accordingly, once on December 29 for 31, the day turns out just as holiday, and all holidays are reduced by 1 hour and this is by law.

So let's go home 1 hour earlier (RF Labor Code, Art. 95).

We’ll work on Saturday the 29th, and long-awaited long New Year holidays from the 30th of December.

It turns out that for workers in the five-day week provides six working days in the week preceding the New Year.

All with the upcoming New Year holidays!

Those who work on a five-day day had to rest him. But this Saturday postponed the working day from December 31.

As for the number of hours, it is worth saying here that the working day will be reduced by 1 hour, as it will be a pre-holiday day.

As we know, shortened working days are before days that are public holidays. December 29, 2018 is Saturday, a day off, but in this case it is a working day, the working day is transferred to it - Monday - December 31, 2018, which is exactly the day before the public holiday, therefore it is a working Saturday, December 29, 2018 will be a shorter working day.

Answer: abbreviated.

Yes, you write correctly. This day, December 29, 2018 - will be shortened, because it is postponed from December 31. For an hour, like, they’ll cut it.

And as if this day is a holiday.

For example, I will have a normal working day, a shift. I think that I'm not the only one).

A good question, which literally in twelve days will become relevant for the working population of Russia! The government has long been precisely defined for the holiday weekend for 2019. Therefore, we can just as accurately say whether or not the day December 29, 2018 will be shortened. And let's take a look at the production calendar with you -

It can be seen that December 29 of this year falls on Saturday. This will be the last working day of the outgoing year. Saturday will be working due to the transfer of a working day to it on December 31, 2018. The festive day is the first of January. Therefore, officially, on December 31, the working day would be reduced by one hour. Consequently, the working day on Saturday, December 29 will also be reduced by one hour.

Everyone who believes otherwise is mistaken, since you need to focus on the pre-holiday day of December 31, 2018.

December 29, 2018 is charged as December 31, 2018 with the corresponding salary. Since the last day of the year would be shortened, workers with hourly wages would be paid, and would be paid, less. They have the right to leave home on December 29, 2018 an hour earlier.

Those who are paid exits in the report card must solve the problem with the administration and the union. For such employees, in fact, everything is decided by the director: by default or by order. In the time sheets, the hours worked are still stamped. Find out how many there will be on the 29th, and go home earlier if you see the number 7. Formally, you will be right.

The total amount of time worked and paid per month should not fluctuate due to the transfer of the working day.

The holiday schedule for the New Year of 2019 and the weekend for January holidays are approved in the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1163 dated 01.10.2018. We will rest for 10 days, starting from December 30, 2018.

New Year and Christmas holidays, or as they are also called the January holidays, in 2019 will please with their duration - as many as 10 calendar days. And we will begin to relax already from December 30, 2018. Accordingly, December 31, 2018 is also an official day off, although Monday, the Russians will work on December 29, 2018.

December 29 shorter working hours for how many hours

The reduced pre-holiday day according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation is the day immediately preceding the non-working holiday. As a general rule, the length of a working day or a shift on a pre-holiday day under labor law is reduced by one hour (Article 95 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). And if the holiday is preceded by a day off - according to the calendar or work schedule, then the duration of the last working day before the day off is not reduced.

December 29, 2018 is a full or an hour reduced work day?

Shortened working days in Russia are pre-holiday days - those days that immediately precede any state holiday giving the right to an extra day of rest (or even several such days as in the new year).

From this point of view, December 29 should be an ordinary working day, because there is no public holiday on December 30 in Russia.

However, the law contains an important nuance - it says that during the transfer of working days, the duration of the working day also remains. That is, it does not matter whether the date of December 29 is a holiday. It is important whether that day is included in the number of such days. for which we will work this Saturday. That is, whether the holiday is December 31st.

But on December 31, of course, the number of pre-holiday days includes - the next day, January 1, in Russia the first day out of eight holiday days connected with New Year and Christmas.

Thus, if we worked on December 31 (how we will do it, for example, in a year), this day would be pre-holiday, when the working day is reduced by an hour.

This means that on December 29, when we “work off” the 31st day in advance, it will be a holiday day, reduced by one hour.

Employers are required to reduce the standard eight-hour shift to seven hours on Saturday. With other operating modes, the options are possible different, but, as a rule, the working day is reduced in other situations. At least in most of them.

When do we go to work after December 29

Due to the successful coincidence of two days off at the end of this year and the beginning of the New Year holidays in the first days of the coming year, we again have to rest 10 days in a row.

After working on December 29, 2018, we will rest until January 8, 2019 inclusive. We go to work on January 9 of next year.



The first business day of 2019 is on Wednesday. This means that after only three working days, we will again have two days off. And only on January 14, we will begin to work in the normal mode of a five-day working week with weekends on Saturday and Sunday.

December 2018 Production Calendar

The production calendar will tell you how we work and relax in December 2018. He will inform you about the number of working days and days off, the norms of working time this month.

How to relax in December 2018

December 2018 has 10 days off:

Sat Sun Sat Sun Sat Sun Sat Sun Sun Mon
1 2 8 9 15 16 22 23 30 31
  • December 1, Sat - day off
  • December 2, Sun - day off
  • December 8, Sat - day off
  • December 9, Sun - day off
  • December 15, Sat - day off
  • December 16, Sun - day off
  • December 22, Sat - day off
  • December 23, Sun - day off
  • December 30, Sun - day off
  • December 31, Mon - the postponed day off from December 29 (Sat).

Working hours

According to the production calendar of Russia, in December 2018 the country has 21 workers (including 1 shortened) and 10 days off and holidays.

Norms of working hours:

  • at a 40-hour work week - 167 hours (21 x 8 - 1, where 21 is the number of working days, 8 is the duration of the work shift, 1 is the number of shortened working days);
  • at 36 hours - 150.2 hours (21 x 7.2 - 1);
  • at 24-hour - 99.8 hours (21 x 4.8 - 1).

Waiting for the New Year

In the meantime, everyone is waiting for the approach of 2019. He had very little time left. December will be filled with pre-holiday preparations, the purchase of gifts, and the installation of a Christmas tree. And do not forget to buy a glass pig - a new Christmas tree toy, a symbol of the coming year.

The turmoil is caused precisely by the special symbol of the year: to meet the Pig you need to prepare thoroughly, carefully think out the dishes on the table and the details of the interior design to fill the house with an expectation of magic.

2019 will be held under the sign of the Yellow Pig. She expects everyone to have a good celebration, so that the whole year becomes successful. Decoration of the apartment must be done in yellow-gray tones, the same shades must certainly be worn in clothes, even if it will be ribbons in the braids of daughters.

Traditional colors of the Pig bring love, finance, luck in creative endeavors to the house. But do not forget about those colors that Santa Claus loves - red, green, gold.

Video: official schedule of weekends and holidays in Russia for the New Year 2019

A shortened working day is the day that precedes the holiday weekend. In this article we will consider whether December 29 is a short day or not, and also what working days in the coming year will be shortened.

Holiday holidays are distributed according to the production calendar, which is approved annually on the basis of the relevant Government Decree.

Shortened business day December 29

This year, the transfer of holidays is based on Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 14, 2017 No. 1250 "On the postponement of holidays in 2019"  . It is this normative act that formed the basis of the production calendar.

According to this document, five holiday transfers were planned in the outgoing year. In particular:

  • from Saturday, January 6 - to Friday, March 9;
  • from Sunday January 7th to Wednesday May 2nd;
  • from Saturday, April 28 - to Monday, April 30;
  • from Saturday June 9th to Monday June 11th
  • from Saturday December 29th to Monday the 31st.

We pay special attention to the transfer from December 29 to December 31. And we will answer the question: why is December 29 a working day?

This year the 31st falls on Monday. Agree that this is very inconvenient due to the fact that on this day in Russia the most active phase of preparation for the celebration of the holiday is traditionally held. In many enterprises, virtually no work is being done. And if to be frank to the end, many try to leave home early or even “take leave” of the authorities.

Taking into account all the factors listed above, the Government decided to meet the needs of workers and postpone the day off Saturday, December 29, to the 31st. Thus legitimizing the holiday. Accordingly, the pre-holiday day of December 29, 2019 is a working day.

According to article 95 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation , the duration of the pre-holiday working day is reduced by 1 hour. According to the production calendar 2019, employees will have to work out a shortened day on December 29th.

How to relax further

After December 29th, according Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 1, 2018 No. 1163 "On the transfer of days off in 2019" , Russians have a long series of days off. In fact, employees will have a rest from 12/30/2018 to 01/08/2019. A total of 10 days. This is due to the fact that Christmas falls on January 7th. No wonder the Russian production calendar is considered one of the most loyal in the world, because there are practically no such long holidays in any country. In total for the outgoing year, Russians rested 118 days. Of these, 14 days are holidays. For comparison, according to the International Labor Organization, in Germany this year was 12 holidays, in the UK - 8, in the Netherlands - 7, and in Costa Rica - 5. As for the number of working hours per year, the Mexicans became the most hardworking - 2250 hours, followed by the South Koreans - 2110 hours. Russia in the middle of the ranking - 1970 hours.

You can learn more about the weekend planned for 2019 in article 112 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, as well as in production calendar  on our portal.