Major holidays

• New year's day (January 1^st)

• Good Friday

• Easter Sunday

• Whitsun

• June 17^th (Iceland's Independence day)

• Christmas eve (December 24^th) after 12:00 o'clock

• Christmas day (December 25^th)

• New year's eve (December 31^st) after 12:00 o'clock

If you are working on these days you get paid according to a so called major holiday rate which is higher than the normal overtime rate.

General holidays

• The day after Christmas (December 26^th)

• Maundy Thursday

• The day after Easter

• First day of summer

• Ascension day

• May 1^st (international holiday of labourers)

• The day after Whitsun

• The first Monday of August (tradespeople's' holiday)