Why did you cancel the May Day holiday?

1. The number of legal holidays should be adapted to the stage of economic and social development. Macroscopically, the total number of national legal holidays has increased by 1 day, that is, from the original1day to1day. It is allowed to move up and down on weekends to form a continuous holiday with legal holidays.

2. The arrangement of national holidays is too centralized. 10 Nine of the legal holidays are arranged in the Spring Festival, May Day and November Day. The number of people is huge, the traffic is crowded, and the hidden dangers of tourism safety are increasing, so as to minimize the impact and impact on economic and social operations.

2. During the long vacation, the personnel and consumption are too concentrated, and the tourist attractions are overcrowded, which brings great difficulties to the arrangement of business activities of tourism and related enterprises, and fully considers the destruction of natural landscapes and historical and cultural relics.

3. Adding New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival on legal holidays is conducive to carrying forward and inheriting national traditional culture.

4. In addition to adjusting the statutory holidays, the Regulations on Employees' Paid Vacation has been promulgated, which provides legal protection for the full implementation of employees' vacation rights, enables employees to arrange family and personal activities more humanely, embodies social equity, and enables all citizens to enjoy the fruits of economic and social development.

Extended data:

On June 5438+February 65438+February 4, 2007, the State Council City, China revised the National Festival and Memorial Day for the second time, and adjusted the start time of the Spring Festival holiday from the first day of the first lunar month to New Year's Eve; "May Day" was adjusted from 7 days to 3 days, a decrease of 4 days; Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are added as legal holidays, with 3 days off each. May Day Golden Week will also become history. Since 2008, the May Day Golden Week has become a three-day holiday.

In 2008, the State Council adopted the Decision of the State Council on Amending the National Annual Festival and Memorial Day (Draft) and the Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees (Draft), which explicitly cancelled the May 1 Golden Week holiday.

Since 2008, there are seven national holidays, namely New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Labor Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. Holidays on national public holidays are concentrated by adjusting weekends, and the vacation time is released by the State Council every year. Local festivals, traditional festivals of ethnic minorities and festivals of other specific groups are limited to specific groups or local areas.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-May Day Golden Week

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-legal holidays