The ruling Civic Platform party wants to create a new bank holiday on Epiphany, 6 January.

The government, however, also wants to remove a regulation from the labour code, according to which Poles can take a day off during the week if a national holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday.

Civic Platform MPs are going to forward the draft legislation to parliament next week, intending it to be passed into law by 6 January 2010.

However, due to a long process of labour code revision, it is more likely that Poles will enjoy a bank holiday in January only in 2011.  (mg)