Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on non-working days between May holidays in 2021. The corresponding document was published on Friday, April 23, on the Kremlin’s website.
“To establish from May 4 to May 7, 2021, inclusive non-working days with the preservation of wages for employees,” the text of the document says.
Public authorities and other organizations were instructed to calculate the number of employees who, from May 1 to May 10, inclusively, will be involved in providing these organizations.
The adoption of these measures will allow maintaining the trend to reduce the incidence of COVID-19 and to preserve the health of Russian citizens.
On the same day, April 23, Vladimir Putin supported the initiative of the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, to make the May holidays continuous due to the coronavirus.
As the head of Rospotrebnadzor explained, the decision on days off will allow “to make the epidemiological forecast more stable,” and the president, in turn, supported her proposal.
Oleg Shein, a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, commented on the decision of the Russian president to make the days off May 1-10 inclusive. According to him, the measure indicated by Vladimir Putin is in the interests of public culture, since Russians have always wanted the continuity of the May holidays.
In 2021, May 1 and 9 fall on weekends. Initially, non-working days were named May 3 and 10, and the period from May 4 to May 7 was officially recognized as a worker. So, Russian citizens will rest for ten days, and the first working day is Tuesday, May 11.