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The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation annually approves the production calendar, which determines the distribution of working and non-working days. When creating the schedule, the combination of holidays and weekends is taken into account to minimize the fragmentation of working weeks.
The distribution of working and non-working periods in the coming 2027 will be as convenient as possible for citizens. The Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Anton Kotyakov stated this in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
According to the head of the department, the government has already approved the corresponding schedule. When forming it, the ministry’s specialists were guided by the principle of combining holidays with weekends in order to avoid unnecessary fragmentation of working weeks.
“We tried to link holidays with weekends so that the week wouldn’t be torn. It seems to me that we succeeded, and the schedule will be quite comfortable next year,” Kotyakov noted. He also added that the Ministry of Labor has retained all the basic approaches to drawing up the production calendar, which have been successfully used in recent years.
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