Which are the holidays in Bulgarian and Romania in 2020
In 2020 the Romanian employees will have 15 official days off, 11 of which will be during the work week. Their Bulgarian colleagues will also have 14 official holidays, when they won't go to work. It's important to note, that if an official Bulgarian holiday is during the weekend (Saturday or Sunday), then the employees take a day off on Monday. The holidays in the two countries will be the following:
Holidays in Romania:
* January 1st and 2nd (the first two days of the new year) - Wednesday and Thursday
* January 24th (Union of Wallachia and Moldavia) - Friday
* April 17th (Good Friday) - Friday
* April 19th and 20th (the first and second day of Easter) - Sunday and Monday
* May 1st (Labour Day) - Friday
* June 1st (Children's Day) - Monday
* June 7th and 8th (Pentecost) - Sunday and Monday
* August 15th (Dormition of the Mother of God) - Saturday
* November 30th (Saint Andrei) - Monday
* December 1st (National holiday of Romania) - Tuesday
* December 25th and 26th (the first and second day of Christmas) - Friday and Saturday
Holidays in Bulgaria
* January 1st (the first day of the new year) - Wednesday
* March 3rd (National holiday of Bulgaria) - Tuesday
* April 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th (Easter) - Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday
* May 1st (Labour Day) - Friday
* May 6th (Bulgarian Army Day) - Wednesday
* May 24th (Bulgarian Education and Culture Day) - Sunday, but the day off will be Monday
* September 6th (Unification of the Principality of Bulgaria with the province of Eastern Rumelia) - Sunday, but the day off will be Monday
* September 22nd (Bulgaria's Independence Day) - Tuesday
* 24th, 25th and 26th (Christmas holidays) - Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but Monday will also be a day off