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Bridging days 2022: How to maximize your vacation days
Extending the vacation: 2022 will be a better year for long holidays
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With bridging days, you can also get a lot of free time when planning your vacation. Anyone who skillfully combines the public holidays with a few vacation days can get more than double on days off.
At the beginning of the new year, the employees’ vacation accounts fill up. Taking into account the public holidays, 2022 is not a jubilee year, but it turns out to be much better for employees than 2021. Some festive days can be extended to a short vacation with bridging days without much effort.
Labor Day is a Sunday and the two Christmas holidays fall on a Sunday and Monday. But a strategic look at the calendar for 2022 shows that October 3rd, the day of German unity, falls on a Monday and long-term vacation planning is worthwhile. In some federal states even more days off with fewer vacation days can be taken through further public holidays in autumn – a schedule overview.
You can safely forget the beginning of 2022. New Year falls on a Saturday. But if you live in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria or Saxony-Anhalt, you get through the day of the three kings better cards on January 6th (a Thursday) and can take a whole week off in January with four days of vacation.
The International Women’s Day which is only considered a public holiday in Berlin. In 2022, it falls on Tuesday, March 8th – ideal for bridge builders in the second week of March.
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An extended vacation in the spring sun in the south can be enjoyed around mid-April Easter Festival (April 14/15). Skilled bridge builders can travel for a total of 16 days with eight vacation days. Even with only four days of vacation in the week after Easter, you still get a break of nine days.
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the 1st of May falls on a Sunday so that all simulation games are unnecessary for any bridging days – the employer will be happy. It looks different Ascension of Christ, traditionally a Thursday (May 26th), from: With the use of a vacation day you have a long weekend; four vacation days bring nine days of free time.
For the same amount of time, one can be absent from work if one goes after the Pentecost Holidays (June 5th / 6th) submits four vacation days. Offers in the following week Corpus Christi (Thursday, June 16) employees in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland have the opportunity to spend a long weekend. If you cleverly use the combination with Whit Monday in these federal states, you can stay away from work for 16 days with an investment of eight vacation days.
From the summer onwards, long day planners have to be patient until well into the second half of the year: Working people in Bavaria and the Saarland can look forward to Monday, August 15, if there Assumption Day is celebrated and thus a long weekend is possible.
After the shame of the last two years, he falls Day of German unity 2022 on a Monday and is therefore ideal for at least a long weekend. With four days from the vacation account, you have nine days at your disposal.
The reintroduced in the federal states of Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia Reformation day will also fall on a Monday in 2022.
On the following day, employees in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland have time off. They celebrate on Tuesday November 1st, All Saints Day and can take a total of nine days off by using four days of vacation.
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The Saxons can look forward to an exclusive public holiday including the possibility of long-term bridges: this is different from all other federal states Day of Prayer and Repentance on November 16, a Wednesday, they are off work.
From the employee’s point of view, the year 2022 ends on a mediocre note: the first day of Christmas is on a Sunday, the second day of celebration on a Monday – and New Year’s Eve will be on a Saturday. With four subsequent vacation days, you can treat yourself to nine rest days over Christmas.