With eleven official holidays in Luxembourg, employees will have several opportunities to carve out a long weekend, all while taking a minimum of paid time off.
Sadly, five of the eleven days fall on a Saturday or Sunday. However, in case of holidays falling on a Sunday, the Luxembourg labour code prescribes a compensatory day off within three months of the original holiday.
This also applies more generally when a holiday falls on a day of the week the employee in question would not have worked.
In addition to the current New Year’s weekend, we have identified three additional three-day-weekends and one possibility of “making the bridge” as they like to say in Luxembourg, by taking one day off.
These are the legal holidays in Luxembourg for 2021:
In some sectors, there are also bank holidays (Good Friday, Christmas Eve...) and customary, but non-obligatory public holidays (Carnival Monday, Good Friday, Kiermes-Monday or All Souls’ Day).
