HR & Payroll Recruiting Benefits – Public Holidays in 2023

Employees are generally entitle to 11 – 15 days of festival holidays with pay. The public holidays are determined by the employer. Employees may be required to work on a festival holiday, but shall receive 2 compensatory paid holidays and a substitute holiday.

There are two types of public holidays available for workers under the act which are:

1. Festival holidays
2. Weekly holidays

Festival holidays:

Every worker will get 11 (eleven) days of paid festival holiday in a calendar year. In case of working on any festival holiday, a worker will get two day’s additional compensatory holidays with full pay and a substitute holiday.

Public Holidays With Weekly:

An adult worker can claim in each week –

1. one and half days holiday for the shop, commercial establishment or industrial establishment and in a factory and  establishment one day in a week;
2. can claim in each week one day’s holiday of twenty-four consecutive hours if he works for road transport service, and no deduction on account of such holidays shall be made from the wages of any such worker.

Every worker is allowed in a calendar year eleven days of paid festival holidays. Some of the public holidays in Bangladesh are of religious nature while others are of memorial nature. Public holidays in Bangladesh may include Eid Milad-un-Nabi (Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad PBUH-12th of Rabi ul Awwal), Language
Martyrs’ Day (February 21), Independence Day (March 26), Bangla New Year’s Day (April 14), May Day (May 1st), Buddha Purnima Day (determined by the traditional lunar calendar), Shab-e-Barat, Lailat-ul-Qadr, , Eid-ul-Fitr (End of Islamic month Ramadan-3 days), National Mourning Day (August 15) Krishna Janamashtami (August 17), Vijaya Dasami/Durga Pooja, Eid ul-Adha (10th of Islamic Month ZilHaj- 3 days), Ashoora (10th of Muharram), Victory Day (December 16) and Christmas Day (December 25).

Bangladesh All Public Holidays In 2023

• • 10 Jan, Tuesday, Bangabandhu Homecoming Day Observance
  • 21 Feb, Tuesday, Language Martyrs’ Day Government Holiday
  • 8 Mar, Wednesday, Holi Hindu Holiday
  • 8 Mar, Wednesday, Shab e-Barat Government Holiday
  • 17 Mar, Friday, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birthday Government Holiday
  • 26 Mar, Sunday, Independence Day Government Holiday
  • 14 Apr, Friday, Bengali New Year Government Holiday
  • 19 Apr, Wednesday, Shab-e-qadr Government Holiday
  • 20 Apr, Thursday, Eid ul-Fitr Holiday National holiday
  • 21 Apr, Friday, Jumatul Bidah Government Holiday
  • 21 Apr, Friday, Eid ul-Fitr Holiday Government Holiday
  • 22 Apr, Saturday, Eid ul-Fitr Government Holiday
  • 23 Apr, Sunday, Eid ul-Fitr Holiday Government Holiday
  • 24 Apr, Monday, Eid ul-Fitr Holiday Optional Holiday
  • 1 May, Monday, May Day Government Holiday
  • 4 May, Thursday, Buddha Purnima/Vesak Government Holiday
  • 28 Jun, Wednesday, Eid al-Adha Holiday (Tentative Date) Government Holiday
  • 29 Jun, Thursday, Eid al-Adha (Tentative Date) Government Holiday
  • 30 Jun, Friday, Eid al-Adha Holiday (Tentative Date) Government Holiday
  • 19 Jul, Wednesday, Muharram (Tentative Date) Government Holiday
  • 29 Jul, Saturday, Ashura (Tentative Date) Government Holiday
  • 15 Aug, Tuesday, National Mourning Day Government Holiday
  • 6 Sep, Wednesday, Janmashtami Government Holida
  • 27 Sep, Wednesday, Eid e-Milad-un Nabi (Tentative Date) Government Holiday
  • 24 Oct Tuesday Durga Puja Government Holiday
  • 16 Dec Saturday Victory Day Government Holiday
  • 25 Dec Monday Christmas Day Government Holiday