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[2024 Holidays] Subscribe Hong Kong Public Holiday iCal 2024 to your electronic calendar

From now on you can save time in adding public holidays to your electronic calendar!  1823 Online has prepared the Hong Kong Public Holidays calendar in iCal format for your use! iCal, short form of iCalendar, is a common file format used for sharing calendar data. iCal is compatible with most of the current calendar program. 1823 Online currently provide data of HK public holidays for 2022-24. For new users, public holidays for 2022-24 will be shown in your calendar after subscribing to our iCal. For users who have already subscribed to our iCal, your mobile devices will automatically update the information of public holidays for 2021-23 to information of 2022-24 after synchronisation. >>>Click here to susbcribe Hong Kong Public Holiday iCal 2024 to your electronic calendar! A statutory holiday is not equivalent to public holiday Statutory holidays are also commonly known as labour holiday.  In accordance with the Employment Ordinance, all employees, irrespective of the length of service or whether the employee is employed under a continuous contract, are entitled to statutory holidays. Please click here for details. The 14 statutory holidays for 2024 are:1.    The first day of January - 1 January (Monday)   2.    Lunar New Year's Day - 10 February (Saturday)    3.    The third day of Lunar New Year - 12 February (Monday)       4.    The fourth day of Lunar New Year - 13 February (Tuesday)  5.    Ching Ming Festival - 4 April (Thursday)     6.    Labour Day - 1 May (Wednesday)   7.    The Birthday of the Buddha - 15 May (Wednesday)    8.    Tuen Ng Festival - 10 June (Monday)     9.    Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day - 1 July (Monday)     10.  The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival - 18 September (Wednesday)       11.  National Day - 1 October (Tuesday)     12.  Chung Yeung Festival - 11 October (Friday)   13.  Chinese Winter Solstice Festival or Christmas Day (at the option of the employer) - 21 December (Saturday) or 25 December (Wednesday)   14.  The first weekday after Christmas Day - 26 December (Thursday)According to the Employment Ordinance, when either Lunar New Year's Day, the second day of the Lunar New Year or the third day of the Lunar New Year falls on a Sunday, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year is designated as a statutory holiday in substitution; and in the event that the day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival falls on a Sunday, the day thereafter (i.e. the 17th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar) is designated as a statutory holiday in substitution. As the second day of Lunar New Year of 2024 falls on a Sunday, the fourth day of Lunar New Year will be designated as a statutory holiday. Please visit the website of Labour Department for more details. All employees are entitled to the above statutory holidays. If the statutory holiday falls on a rest day, a holiday should be granted on the day following the rest day which is not a statutory holiday or an alternative holiday or a substituted holiday or a rest day. An employee having been employed under a continuous contract for not less than 3 months is entitled to the holiday pay which is equivalent to the average daily wages earned by the employee in the 12-month period preceding the holiday. For more details, please click here.