The Clean Monday (this year it’s on March 3, 2025) is being communicated to private sector employees by GSEE and the Information Centre for Employees & Unemployed of the Confederation (KE.P.E.A./GSEE).

Based on the official holidays it is clarified that Clean Monday is not included in the general official holidays defined by law for private sector workers.

How private sector employees will be paid?

The GSEE informs that employees who will be employed on this day, if they are daily wage earners, are due their normally paid daily wage without any other increase (i.e. they will not receive the 75% increase), if they are paid a monthly wage, they are not entitled to receive any other remuneration beyond the normal monthly wage.

However, private enterprises in our country are late if Clean Monday has been designated a holiday by a special provision of law, a provision of a collective bargaining agreement, a provision of the company’s Work Rules, a business custom and tradition, in which the business is closed on this day.

If employees do not work under the above, they will not have any reduction in their wages, while those who are paid a daily wage are entitled to receive their daily wage (Art. 2(3) of Law No. 3755/1955).

Article 2(3)(b) of Article 375555 of the Law of the Republic of Serbia.

What applies to the exceptions

If an enterprise operates this year under an exception (whereas in previous years it did not operate under the Collective Agreement, Reg. Labour Code, business custom or custom), then employees are entitled to a 1/25 salary increase for their work, and an additional day’s pay for those paid on a day’s pay, with a 75% increase in their earnings.

Details of the collective bargaining agreements in force, as well as codes of collective bargaining arrangements, can be found on the O.M.E.D. website at the following address: http://www.omed.gr/el/syllogikes-rythmiseis.

What are the official holidays:

The days of compulsory holidays established by law on which all industrial, craft, commercial work, professional activity, as well as the employment of employees is prohibited are:

-January 6 (the feast of Epiphany), which was added to the compulsory holidays under article 60 of Law 4808/2021

-The 25th of March

-Easter Monday

-The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (15th of August)

-The feast of the Nativity of Christ (25th December)

-The second day of Christmas (26 December), which was added to the compulsory holidays under Article 42 of Law 4554/2018

-The 1st of May, which by Article 14 of Law 4468/2017, was designated as a day of compulsory holidays

By the same aforementioned provision, it was stipulated that by decision of the Minister of Labour, Social Security and Social Solidarity the public holiday of 1 May may be postponed to another working day if it coincides with a Sunday, a day of Holy Week, or Easter Monday.

October 28, which was added to the compulsory public holidays under Article 60 of Law 4808/2021.