Eight long weekends for 2015... Yay! Plan your trips ahead and prepare your itineraries as early as now. Most holidays next year fall on either Thursday or Friday, so yey for long weekends. Check on the list below:

Regular holidays

• January 1 (Thursday), New Year’s Day
• April 2 (Thursday), Maundy Thursday
• April 3 (Friday), Good Friday
• April 9 (Thursday), Araw ng Kagitingan
• May 1 (Friday), Labor Day
• June 12 (Friday), Independence Day
• August 31 (Monday), National Heroes Day
• November 30 (Monday), Bonifacio Day
• December 25 (Friday), Chirstmas Day
• December 30 (Wednesday), Rizal Day

Special (Non-Working) Days

• February 19 (Thursday), Chinese New Year
• April 4 (Saturday), Black Saturday
• Ninoy Aquino Day (Friday), August 21
• All Saints Day (Sunday), November 1

Additional special (non-working) days

• January 2 (Friday)
• December 24 (Thursday)
• December 31 (Thursday), last day of the year
  

Special holiday (for all schools)

• Feburary 25 (Wednesday), EDSA Revolution Anniversary

** Employees who work on regular holidays are entitled to an additional 100% of the daily rate for the first eight hours and an additional 30 percent for additional hours. While on Special non-working day, employees shall be paid an additional 30% of the daily rate for the first eight hours and an additional 30% hourly rate for succeeding hours of work.