Is it a day off?
A public holiday across Montenegro: most employees have the day off.
In 2024 it falls on a Thursday, a working day.
Fixed date: it is on the same day of the year every year (May 2).
Saturday and Sunday · A public holiday does not always close every business. Essential services, shops and some industries keep working, and pay rules differ by country and contract.
Labor Day
Labor Day, or Labour Day, honours workers and the labour movement, but the name covers two different calendar traditions. In the United States and Canada it is the first Monday of September and marks the unofficial end of summer, with parades, picnics and back-to-school preparations. In much of Europe the same idea falls on 1 May as International Workers' Day, which has its own entry on this site, and some countries, such as Greece, Serbia and Slovenia, call that day Labour Day in English.
A number of countries and territories have their own date. New Zealand marks Labour Day on 25 October in 2027, and several Australian states keep it on different Mondays: 1 March in Western Australia, 8 March in Victoria and 4 October in New South Wales, South Australia and the ACT. In Trinidad and Tobago it is 19 June, the date linked to the 1937 labour unrest led by Uriah Butler, and in the Bahamas it is called Randol Fawkes Labour Day after a trade unionist. The shared name hides very different histories and customs.
Labor Day: all countries