Talk:Public holidays in the Netherlands

Be nice if someone (Dutch) could organise this. There appear to be 3 categories of days, as described: public holidays with mandatory time off work; public holidays without mandatory time off work; and commonly marked days which are not public holidays. ...Although it's curious how something can be considered a public holiday if it doesn't involve some sort of legislated time off...

The table really needs extra columns to suit. I'd do it myself but I fear making the article less accurate.

--Froggienation (talk) 14:12, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

It may be curious but that's how it is. It has to do with so-called Collective Labour Agreements (CAO) that regulate entire sectors (or smaller, possibly only one big company). Making something a public holiday puts pressure on CAO negotiations to include it as a mandatory holiday, but companies that do not fall under a CAO or CAOs that didn't include that particular day (like may 5th every five years) do not have a mandatory day off. However if you value your employees, you may, as an employer, of course still give a day off regardless.

--ErwinBolwidt (talk) 11:40, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

I've updated the liberation day to accurately reflect when it is a public holiday. No idea on how to write this out nicer, so perhaps somebody can make it more clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.166.66.114 (talk) 08:47, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
 * This article says "Liberation Day	Bevrijdingsdag	This is a national holiday once every five years." but Liberation Day (Netherlands) says "After the liberation in 1945, Liberation Day was commemorated every five years. Finally, in 1990, the day was declared to be a national holiday, when the liberation would be commemorated and celebrated every year." Which is it? AndrewAllen (talk) 20:09, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

So the article starts with '13 days' but then lists 12 days... This article needs some cleaning up. For instance, Sinterklaas is not a public holiday. And to count the Sundays of Easter and Pentecost as holidays is also very interesting... 81.20.68.186 (talk) 09:35, 28 April 2015 (UTC)