This year, both Christmas and New Year’s Day fall in the middle of the week.As there’s no point in firing up production lines for just one day, many manufacturing companies in Estonia have paused their operations until the new year.
In Estonia, Christmas is marked with three consecutive public holidays on December 24-26, for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.Both the day before Christmas, December 23, and New Year’s Eve, December 31, are also nationally mandated shortened workdays.
On Friday, December 20, employees at the Sami machinery factory hit the lights on Friday evening, and won’t be back again until the morning of December 30th.
Read more: ERR.EE
