China's working weekends for 2008

Following up on yesterday's post about China's new holiday lineup for 2008, we now have the official official list of dates, so now everyone knows what Saturdays and Sundays they might be asked to work (and that nonsense starts soon). Here we go:

• New Year's Day: Sunday, December 30-Tuesday, January 1 (workers will be asked to work on Saturday, December 29, 2007)
• Spring Festival: Wednesday, February 6-Tuesday, February 12 (workers will be asked to work Saturday, February 2 and Sunday, February 3)
• Tomb Sweeping Day (Qingming Jie, 清明节): Friday, April 4-Sunday, April 6 (of course two of those days are the weekend anyway)
• Labor Day: Thursday, May 1-Saturday, May 3 (workers will be asked to work on Sunday, May 4)
• Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Jie, 端午節): Saturday, June 7-Monday, June 9 (Sunday holiday, so Monday off)
• Mid-Atumn Festival (Zhongqiu Jie, 中秋节): Saturday, September 13-Monday, September 15 (Sunday holiday, so Monday off)
• National Day: Monday, September 29-Sunday, October 5 (workers will be asked to work Saturday, September 27 and Sunday, September 28)

While we find the idea of working on weekend in order to get weekdays off silly, at least they are announcing the official dates in advance now. They used to wait until the last minute, making planning a bitch.

Video of Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend."