Text file: 5487.txt
author: Anonimni uporabnik
downvotes: 8
end consideration date: 2014-02-21
id: '5487'
number comments: 23
number views: 3660
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities\n\
  The area of public holidays and public holidays is regulated by the Act on Public\
  \ Holidays and Public Holidays in the Republic of Slovenia (Official Gazette of\
  \ the Republic of Slovenia No. 112/05-UPB1, 52/10, and 40/2012-ZUJF; hereinafter\
  \ referred to as ZPDPD). The regulation of public holidays falls within the area\
  \ of state regulation in the Republic of Slovenia, which also includes general state\
  \ acts, symbols and public holidays. The definitions of public holidays and public\
  \ holidays under this Act are also linked to the solutions in the labour legislation,\
  \ which entitle employees to time off work on public holidays and public holidays,\
  \ with the right to wage compensation or to special valuation of work, if the employees,\
  \ due to the continuous work or production process or the special nature of the\
  \ work, have to work on that day.\nAlready when the PWDPA was drawn up in 1991,\
  \ there were many dilemmas and a wide variety of views on the days that should be\
  \ properly observed in our country. In drafting the law, the draftsman has considered\
  \ all the views and suggestions submitted and has also taken into account the results\
  \ of an opinion poll which was conducted for the very reason of establishing by\
  \ law public holidays which have a general meaning or significance for all or most\
  \ citizens. The regulation of public holidays and public holidays in the Republic\
  \ of Slovenia must certainly correspond to the actual attitudes of our citizens\
  \ regarding the importance of certain dates, which should be given a special commemoration.\n\
  Taking into account all the views, suggestions and the results of the opinion poll,\
  \ the current regulation was adopted, according to which the PWDPA provides for,\
  \ in addition to public holidays, six public holidays which have a religious significance,\
  \ and these public holidays do not exclusively commemorate the feast days of the\
  \ Catholic faith. Taking into account the structure of holidays in European countries,\
  \ it can also be noted that in most of the countries compared, the majority of holidays\
  \ are religious, and that, in addition to New Year's Day and Labour Day, the observance\
  \ of holidays is linked to the nationality of the country.\nWe would also like to\
  \ mention the fact that since the adoption of the PPSL, several amendments to the\
  \ law have been proposed, two of which were implemented in amendments and additions\
  \ to the law in 2005 and 2010, and some of which have not been adopted by the National\
  \ Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia for consideration. The amendments concerned\
  \ changes or additional commemorations of certain events related to the history\
  \ of the nation and the state, and not changes, deletions or additions to religious\
  \ holidays. The ZUJF also interfered with the regulation of public holidays by shortening\
  \ the celebration of the New Year to one day, although it should be pointed out\
  \ that the two-day celebration of the New Year is not otherwise established in most\
  \ comparable European countries.\nTaking all the above into account, we consider\
  \ that the regulation of the celebration of public holidays in the Republic of Slovenia\
  \ is appropriate and comparable to other European countries, and therefore we do\
  \ not consider that there are any valid arguments for amending the law in the sense\
  \ of the proposal outlined.\n \n "
response date: 2014-03-10
response due date: null
sent date: 2014-01-23
title: Holidays
upvotes: 28
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/5487
