Holidays include Saturday and Sunday?

Holidays do not include Saturdays and Sundays, according to the "National Annual and Memorial Day Holiday Measures" in addition to the statutory holidays: Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Labor Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day (all citizens). Women's Day, Youth Day, Children's Day, and the founding of the army (some citizens) the rest are normal working hours. In addition to the above holidays, localities may specify locally-owned holidays. And it is clearly stipulated that Saturday and Sunday are rest days, but they do not fall within the scope of legal holidays.

Saturdays and Sundays are public holidays, and employers who arrange for workers to work overtime on public holidays do not have to pay overtime wages if they can arrange for compensatory time off at other times; if they can't arrange for compensatory time off, they have to pay the workers overtime wages of not less than 200 percent of the wages agreed in the labor contract.

Legal basis: "the national annual and anniversary holidays" Article 51 provides that for legal holidays, there are three types:

1, all citizens holiday holiday, that is, regardless of race, regardless of male and female, regardless of age and nationality and so on a series of attributes of the country all people can enjoy the holiday holiday, the full name of the holiday has a new year's new year's day, Chinese New Year (the first three days of the first month), Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day (legal holidays are October 1, 2, 3, 7 days off is the result of the transfer is not a legal holiday).

2, is part of the citizens of the holiday and anniversary of the holiday, generally for a specific identity, for example, the Army Day, only for active military personnel to take a half day off; similarly, Women's Day is only women take a half day off, in addition to Children's Day and Youth Day.

3, minority customary holidays, the local people's government of the areas inhabited by minority nationalities, in accordance with the custom of the nationalities, the holiday date. Different ethnic minorities set different holidays.