All Saints' Day on a Sunday. Employees will not get a day off in lieu.
Employers do not have to grant time off for November 1. A petition that was meant to equalize holidays falling on Sundays with those falling on Saturdays was rejected in May by a parliamentary committee.
All Saints' Day falls this year on Sunday, November 1, so employees are not entitled to an additional day off for it. Under Article 130 of the Labor Code, working time is reduced by 8 hours only for a holiday falling on a day other than Sunday. This is reminded by pulsHR.pl and ESKA.pl.
For full-time employees working Monday to Friday, November 2026 has 20 working days, which means 160 hours. The only holiday that reduces this is Independence Day on November 11, which falls on a Wednesday. The employer must designate a day off in lieu when a holiday falls on a Saturday. This year, this applied to August 15 and will also apply to December 26, the second day of Christmas.
In 2026, four holidays fall on a Sunday: Easter on April 5, Constitution Day on May 3, Pentecost on May 24, and November 1. No day off in lieu is granted for any of them. The whole year has 14 statutory public holidays, because since 2025 Christmas Eve has also been a day off.
The changes were proposed by the Można Lepiej! Foundation. In petition no. BKSP-153-X-826/26, it called for a day off in lieu for a holiday falling on a Sunday under the same rules as for a holiday falling on a Saturday. According to pulsHR.pl, this year it could, for example, be November 2. The authors of the petition argued that in recent years there had been no claims that taking time off in lieu for Saturday holidays disrupted company operations, and that the change would neither lengthen nor shorten working time:
Our initiative does not mean shortening working time; it is only about introducing consistent rules.
The parliamentary Petitions Committee did not support the proposal on May 13, 2026. As reported by ESKA.pl, it had earlier received a negative opinion from the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy. Representing the ministry, Marek Wesołowski pointed out that Saturday and Sunday have different statuses in the regulations. Sunday is a statutory day off, while a free Saturday results from the five-day workweek at a given employer. According to the ministry, the change would require a broad reform of regulations on working time and wages, especially for people paid by the hour.
For HR departments, this means that there is no need to include an additional day off in the November schedules. Time off for December 26 still needs to be planned.