On Monday, June 24, falls this year feast of Holy Spirit. The feast is movable and is always celebrated on a Monday, seven weeks after Easter and the day after Pentecost Sunday.
Holy Spirit is a holiday for them employees of the State – NPDD and OTA. However, the feast of the Holy Spirit is not included in the official holidays defined by the law for employees in the private sector unless it has been established by: decree, Ministerial Decision, regulation, binding collective labor agreement in force or agreed by an individual contract or unilaterally established by the employer as usual.
The feast of the Holy Spirit is considered a holiday, according to special provisions of the relevant collective agreements or other decisions, for the following categories employees:
- Bookstores
- Diagnostic Centers
- Journalists
- Project managers
- Designers
- Nursing Homes
- Newspapers of Athens and Thessaly, etc
- Industrial and Shop Electricians
- Doormen
- Tobacco industries
- Clinics
- Lumber Shops (Athens – Piraeus – Perichores)
- Oil companies
- Shipping Agencies etc
- Radio electricians – Industry radio technicians
- Radio Stations
- Radio Technicians
- Lifeguard Office Tugs
- Television Stations
- Television technicians of Northern Greece
- District Newspaper Printers
- Daily Newspaper Unloaders
- Middle, Higher, Higher Education and Foreign Language Tutors
- Phototypers
- Operators of industrial etc businesses
- Stone-Marble Quarries and Technical Works
How are those who work are paid
- if they are daily wage earners, they are entitled to receive their normally paid daily wage without any increase,
- if they are paid a monthly salary, they are not entitled to additional remuneration, beyond their normal monthly salary.
If the business is normally closed on these days:
- those who are paid a daily wage, are generally not entitled to receive their daily wage, because there is no provision of law that establishes a general obligation of employers to pay the daily wage on non-excludable holidays, unless of course it is due to custom or business practice or SSE etc. it is predicted that they will be late on these holidays, but paying the corresponding daily wage,
- those who are paid a monthly salary will normally receive their salary without any additional remuneration.
If the business is normally closed during these days and it has worked exceptionally, by a unilateral decision of the employer:
- daily wage earners are entitled to their regular daily wages and
- (salaried employees are entitled to receive an additional 1/25 of their salary (because the salary corresponds to the working days of the month, while this day was not a working day for them and therefore the remuneration for this day was not included in their salary ).
If the business normally operates during these days and exceptionally did not operate, by a unilateral decision of the employer, those who are paid a daily wage are entitled to receive their daily wage, according to the provisions on employer overtime, while those who are paid a monthly wage are not entitled to any other remuneration except from their regular monthly salary.
Holy Spirit: What do we celebrate and what is the symbolism of the day
The celebration essentially symbolizes its reception Holy Spirit from the faithful in order to enlighten and guide them.
The Holy Spirit constitutes with the Father and the Son the Triune God of Christianity.
It is identical and equal to the two other persons and is distinguished from them by its existence (“One in three and three in one”).
The monotheism of Christianity is triad and not monad like Judaism and Mohammedanism.
On Sunday, one day before the Holy Spirit, the coming of the Holy Spirit is celebrated, that is, on that day the Holy Spirit came to his Disciples Christ.
In order to give special honor to the Holy Spirit, it was decided to celebrate it both on Pentecost and separately on Monday.
The calendar with the remaining holidays of 2024, following the feast of the Holy Spirit:
- Assumption of the Virgin August 15, 2024 (Thursday)
- Anniversary of “No” October 28, 2024 (Monday)
- Christmas 25 December 2024 (Wednesday)
- Ascension of the Virgin December 26, 2024 (Thursday)
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