Labour Day Dates by Country

🇹🇼How does Taiwan mark Labour Day Dates by Country?勞動節

Taiwan's Labour Day is 1 May. Article 5 of the Act on Commemorative Days and Holidays lists it as a festival, and Article 6 provides that Children's Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labour Day, the Dragon Boat Festival, Teachers' Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival are each a one-day holiday, with no distinction drawn as to who gets it — so it applies to everyone. That is a change: before this, the basis for the 1 May holiday was labour legislation, and in practice only employees covered by the Labor Standards Act were off while public servants worked. Taiwan's Labour Day has a property rarely seen elsewhere: it is a holiday on which only some people are off. The day off is limited to workers covered by the Labour Standards Act, while civil servants and parts of some industries work as usual, so within one household one person may rest and another may not. A holiday named for labour thus lays the question of who counts as a worker out on the calendar, replayed once a year.

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🇨🇳How does China mark Labour Day Dates by Country?五一劳动节

In mainland China, Labour Day gets two days off under the national holiday regulation: 1 and 2 May. The second of May was added in the 2024 revision — the same revision that brought Lunar New Year's Eve into the Spring Festival break. In practice shifted workdays are then used to build a longer run, so the actual length of the 'May Day holiday' is decided each year by a State Council notice rather than being fixed.

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🇧🇷How does Brazil mark Labour Day Dates by Country?Dia do Trabalho

In Brazil, 1 May is a national holiday under Law 662, sitting alongside New Year's Day and Christmas. Its public face has long been tied to union activity and demands over workers' rights, while also being a family long weekend. The law grants a day; what society fills it with changes from year to year.

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🇮🇩How does Indonesia mark Labour Day Dates by Country?Hari Buruh Internasional

Indonesia lists International Workers' Day on 1 May as a national holiday, written into the annual joint ministerial decree alongside religious festivals and independence day on the same sheet. This is a relatively recent arrangement — since it entered the national holiday list, 1 May in Indonesia has been both a rest day and a march day, with both uses sitting on the same date.

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🇮🇳How does India mark Labour Day Dates by Country?Labour Day / May Day

India's national holiday list does not contain 1 May: among the seventeen compulsory days gazetted for 2026, that date is Budha Purnima. Whether 1 May is a day off is decided state by state, and the name on it need not be Labour Day — Maharashtra's own holiday notification (the state gazette, in Marathi) lists 1 May as Maharashtra Din, marking the state's formation in 1960 rather than labour; every other state keeps its own list. This is normal for the Indian holiday system: the national list is short, and what actually shapes daily life is usually the state list and the institution's own list.

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🇯🇵How does Japan mark Labour Day Dates by Country?ゴールデンウィーク

1 May is not a national holiday in Japan, and it is an ordinary working and school day. The holidays sit around it: Showa Day on 29 April, Constitution Day on 3 May, Greenery Day on 4 May and Children's Day on 5 May — four public holidays inside a single week make up Golden Week, with 1 May caught in the middle as a working day. Some companies schedule it as leave on their own, but that is a company decision rather than a national one.

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🇺🇸How does United States mark Labour Day Dates by Country? · Labor Day

The United States does not hold Labor Day on 1 May but on the first Monday of September, as a federal holiday. Its placement is itself a historical choice: International Workers' Day on 1 May grew out of the American eight-hour-day movement, yet the official American observance ended up in September. In practice that Monday functions as the end of summer and the last long weekend before school, and labour issues are not its most visible content.

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