Official holidays in 2021 (in addition to the special leave during the annual closure):

• Friday, 1 January (New Year)
• Friday, 2 April (Good Friday)
• Monday, 5 April (Easter Monday)
• Thursday, 13 May (Ascension day)
• Friday, 14 May (compensation granted for 1st May)
• Monday, 24 May (Whit Monday)
• Thursday, 9 September (“Jeûne genevois”)
• Friday, 24 December (Christmas Eve)
• Monday, 27 December (compensation granted for 25th December, Christmas)
• Friday, 31 December (New Year’s Eve)

Annual closure of the site of the Organization during the Christmas holidays

The Laboratory will be closed from Wednesday 22 December 2021 to Tuesday 4 January 2022 inclusive (without deduction of annual leave). The first working day in the New Year will be Wednesday 5 January 2022.

Please direct your queries to: hr.leave@cern.ch