The Feast of the Holy Spirit (Monday 28 May 2018), is a working day for private businesses and not an exempt public holiday, unless it has been established as a public holiday by Decree, Ministerial Decision, Regulation, Collective Labour Agreement etc, or by custom.
How it is paid • Those paid on a daily wage basis and who will not work on that day are not entitled to receive their daily wage • while those who do work are not entitled to the 75% increase on the statutory hourly wage (for the hours worked).
For which categories of workers is it a public holiday.
The Feast of the Holy Spirit is regarded as a public holiday, pursuant to special provisions of the relevant collective agreements or other decisions, for the following categories of employees:
- • Bookshops, Diagnostic Centres, Magazine Journalists, Construction Supervisors, Designers, Old People’s Homes, Newspapers of Athens and Thessaly etc, Electrical Technicians of Industry and Shops, Porters, Tobacco Factories, Clinics, Timber Merchants’ Shops (Athens – Piraeus – Suburbs), Magazines, Petroleum Businesses, Shipping Agencies etc., Radio-Electricians – Radio Technicians of industry, Radio Stations, Radio Technicians, Towing and Salvage Offices, Television Stations, Television technicians of Northern Greece, Printers of Provincial Newspapers, Loading and Unloading Workers of Daily Newspapers, Tutorial Schools of Secondary, Higher, University Education, and Foreign Languages, Phototypesetters, Operators of industrial etc businesses, Stone-Marble Quarries and Technical Works.
- • For employees in the Public Sector, legal entities of public law and local government organisations, the Feast of the Holy Spirit is a public holiday.