Holiday central over here - tho we do have the weather to enjoy even more...

Christmas 2 days
Easter 4
Australia day 1
Labour Day 1
Queens Birthday (on the wrong date!!!) 1
Melbourne Cup Horse race (yep a horse race) 1
ANZAC Day 1

If some of these hols fall on a weekend then we take the next "working" days 
off
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Leeds List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:07 AM
Subject: [LU] Public holidays


> Someone said
>
> England is the only country I know that has 4 days for Easter (The 
> province
> Alsace does too as it takes Good Friday from the Schleurs and Easter 
> Monday
> from the French) and 2 days for Christmas.
>
>
> Not true......we in Canada have four days for Easter too.....trouble is
> you have to be in a union to get the Friday AND Monday.....regular
> workers don't get the Monday.  And as for Christmas....everyone gets two
> days, 25th and 26th....of if either or both days are on a weekend, the
> following Monday is a holiday.  We're bitching to get a day's holiday in
> February.....such a long run between Jan. 1st and Easter.  We even get a
> day off on the Monday around May 21 for Queen Victoria for Pete's
> sake.....not for our current monarch....but Queen Victoria.  Strange
> country Canada is.
>
> Grampa Sykes
>
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