Do legal holidays include weekends?

Legal holidays do not include weekends, which are legal holidays. Saturdays and Sundays are not within the statutory holidays in China, and weekends are arranged by employers according to business needs.

The State Council issued the "National Holidays and Remembrance Days". There are three types of statutory holidays in China:

The first is a holiday for all citizens.

Second, some citizens have holidays and anniversaries, including Women's Day (women have a half-day holiday on March 8), Youth Day (1 young people over 4 years old have a half-day holiday on May 4), Children's Day (1 children under 3 years old have a holiday in June 1 day1) and China People's Liberation Army Memorial Day (August/kloc-0).

Third, the local people's governments in areas where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities determine the date of festivals according to the habits of ethnic minorities. At the same time, the measures also stipulate that citizens should make up their holidays on working days if they fall on Saturdays and Sundays. If some citizens have a holiday on Saturday and Sunday, they will not be compensated.

To sum up, Saturday and Sunday are not legal holidays in China, so weekends are not legal holidays.

Extended data:

According to Article 2 of the National Holidays and Remembrance Days, statutory holidays include: (1) New Year's Day, holiday 1 day (every year 10/day); (2) Spring Festival, with a holiday of 3 days (the first day, second day and third day of the first lunar month); And (3) Tomb-Sweeping Day, holiday 1 day. Holiday 1 day (6) Mid-Autumn Festival, holiday 1 day (7) National Day, holiday for 3 days (10, 1, 2, 3).

Article 40 of the Labor Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) (except statutory holidays in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province Province) stipulates that the employer shall arrange employees to take vacations according to law on New Year's Day, Spring Festival, International Labor Day, National Day and other holidays stipulated by laws and regulations.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-National holidays and anniversaries

Baidu Encyclopedia-People's Republic of China (PRC) Labor Law