The long dry spell is over: If you cleverly combine the public holidays in 2023 with a little vacation as bridging days, you can easily double your vacation account.
First the bad news: The new year only got off to a good start for three federal states. Because after the disappointing start with the New Year’s Day On January 1st, which falls on a Sunday in 2023, only the residents of the federal states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Saxony-Anhalt can look forward to it three holy Kings as a public holiday.
Since January 6th is a Friday, the first weekend of the new year is already suitable for an extended one. Or if you submit four days, you can start the first week of the new year in a very relaxed manner: if you take four days off in the three federal states, you can go on vacation for nine days.
Easter 2023: 16 days off with eight vacation days
After Berlin, for the first time in 2023 March 8th will also be a public holiday in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Der International Women’s Day falls on a Wednesday – ideal for bridge builders in the second week of March.
For all federal states, April will only be attractive again: Easter With Good Friday on April 7th and Easter Monday on April 10th, 2023 is a little earlier than the year before. But the Easter days are an ideal opportunity to get a lot of free time with a few days of vacation. There are two options: Anyone who submits four days of vacation to their employer before Good Friday can plan a ten-day trip.
The same applies to the later combination: If you submit four days of vacation from April 3rd to 6th, ten days of vacation are also available – ideal for a flight to Mallorca, for example. The best is the long Easter version, through which skilful bridge builders can travel 16 days with only eight days from the vacation account.
Merry month of May for bridging days
Things are going well in May. Labor Day, the 1st of May, finally falls on a weekday again, on a Monday.
It gets even more interesting in the middle of the month: Ascension of Christ falls on Thursday 18 May. The following Friday offers itself as a bridging day. And in 2023 Pentecost also falls in May. Will Whit Monday on May 29th in his vacation planning, has only six vacation days and twelve days off in a row. This applies to all federal states.
Anyone who lives in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate or Saarland will have another long weekend in mind in June: Corpus Christi, which is always celebrated on a Thursday, falls on June 8 in 2023. With a bridging day on Friday, four days off beckon – with four days from the vacation account even a whole vacation week.
All employees in Saarland and some in Bavaria have an additional holiday bonus. In these federal states, the summer holidays are in the middle of the time Assumption Day (Tuesday, August 15th) as a holiday – a free day that does not reduce the holiday account. In the federal state of Bavaria, the proportion of Catholics is decisive for whether or not work has to be done in a city or municipality on this day.
Many possibilities in October 2023
There are no public holidays nationwide in September, with one exception: Thuringia has the World Children’s Day as a day off observed on Wednesday 20th September.
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The next nationwide holiday is the Day of German unity on October 3rd, which falls on a Tuesday in 2023 – again ingeniously suitable for a bridging day on the Monday before. Or nine days of vacation time are available through four submitted vacation days.
A second option for bridge builders for a long weekend is the Reformation Day on October 31st, a Tuesday. The residents of Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia can look forward to this holiday.
A day later, residents in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland are happy. On Wednesday, November 1st, they do not have to show up for work. Because all saints day is considered a holiday there. With four vacation days submitted, this results in a calculated time-out of nine days.
During the course of November there is another special feature: the only federal state in Saxony is the Day of Prayer and Repentance as off-duty. Wednesday, November 22nd should once again stimulate the imagination of bridge builders.
Christmas holidays: the best for last
Christmas 2023 compensates all employees of the past years. Because at the end of the year comes the grand finale: planning the Christmas holidays is a lot of fun. Of the first day of christmas falls on a Monday second feast day on a Tuesday – and New Year 2024 will be on a Monday. Anyone who has saved a small amount of vacation throughout the year makes the best cut: Simply submit vacation from December 27th to 29th and say goodbye to colleagues for ten days until seeing you again in the new year – with only three days Deduction from vacation account.
The pros among the bridge builders who include the beginning of 2024 in their planning are even better off: With four more vacation days in the first week of January 2024, you can take 16 days off using only six vacation days.
Conclusion 2023: The year of the bridge days
2023 is a very employee-friendly year. If you plan cleverly and submit your vacation days early, you can more than double the usual vacation quota of 30 days.
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