The title of this post should have been in the form of a question, intended to solicit your opinion: Do you agree with Malacanang’s policy to discontinue the holiday economics of the previous administration? You could go direct to the bottom of the post to write down your opinion. Or you can read on.

Malacanang has declared 30 August 2011 (Tuesday) as a national non-working holiday (per Proclamation 234). This is another occurrence of a rare long weekend among the 2011 Philippine holidays under the administration of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino.

Good news for workers: June 20 is a holiday, which means that we’re heading into a rare long weekend (June 18 to 20). While we’re at it, even if it’s already the middle of the year (time flies really fast), here’s the full list of regular and special holidays for 2011.

Well, whadayaknow. May 3, a Monday, is a holiday, after all. Malacanang, through Executive Secretary Leandro Mendoza, issued Proclamation No. 2043, declaring Monday (May 3, 2010) as a regular holiday throughout the country.

We celebrate holidays to commemorate an event or a person of special significance to the country. While the declaration of holidays is supposed to bring unity, it sometimes results to confusion in the workplace, even if unintended.

The month of November contains 3 national holidays, with 2 long weekends. The first long weekend is All Saints’ Day in November 1 and the additional special non-working holiday in November 2 declared by the President under Proclamation 1699. That’s from October 31 to November 2 (Saturday to Monday). The second long weekend is from [...]

Somebody asked if 25 February 2008 has been declared as a non-working holiday, to give everyone a chance to commemorate EDSA People Power. Well, I’m not yet aware of any Proclamation issued by the President on this matter, so all we can do is wait. In the meantime, here are the regular holidays and nationwide [...]

There are more long weekends to come. This early, searches have reached this site looking for public holidays for the rest of the year – October, November and December (time flies so fast). Here are the remaining declared public holidays for 2007 (and one for 2008):

One of the more confusing matters, for employees and HR people alike, is the computation of holiday pay, complicated by the fact that there are different “kinds” of holidays. This is cleared by Memorandum Circular No. 1 of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the full text of which is reproduced and discussed below.