Working Practices: (bank holidays) these holidays are a mixture of secular and religious holidays.
National public holidays of Czech Republic in 2012
January 1 - Day of the Establishment of the Slovak Republic Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia
April 9 - Easter Monday
May 1 - Labour Day International observances began with the Haymarket Riot in Chicago
May 8 - Liberation Day Czech Republic The end of World War II in Europe.
July 5 - St Cyril and Methodius Day Slavic missionaries Cyril (Constantine) and Metod (Methodius) came to Great Moravia
July 6 - Jan Hus Day The anniversary of the martyrdom of Jan Hus
September 28 - St Wenceslas Day Day of the Czech statehood
October 28 - Foundation of the independent Czechoslovak State Marks the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918.
November 17 - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day. Commemorating the student demonstration against Nazi occupation in 1939, and especially the demonstration in 1989 in Prague considered to mark the beginning of the Velvet Revolution.
December 24 - Christmas Eve Christmas presents are opened in the evening on Christmas Eve in Slovakia
December 25 - Christmas Day First Christmas Holiday
December 26 - St Stephens Day Second Christmas Holiday
