Sentence examples for compulsory holidays from inspiring English sources

In the state of Piauí, the governor, Francisco de Assis Moraes Souza, ordered state offices to remain open during the first of the compulsory holidays.

Production in all factories within a 125-mile radius of the city was suspended, half the cars were banned from the roads, schools were closed, and public-sector workers were given compulsory holidays.

I was in my first year of secondary school and we had compulsory holidays, everything had stopped because the Nigerian air force started bombing indiscriminately.

Workers say overtime is compulsory and holidays banned in the busy months of November and December.

Real wages are falling, and workers in state-owned firms have been forced to take compulsory unpaid holidays.

There, presumably, they would find the public transport workers already painting the pink city, as Toulouse is called, red as they celebrated their compulsory May Day holiday.

Only for incomers will the four-day loss of holiday be compulsory.

Do people not understand article 67 of the European Convention on Human Rights: the right of children to a childhood, including at least eight weeks of holiday with compulsory sunshine?

These days, it's pretty much compulsory for hotels and holiday rentals to flag up their eco-credentials, be they investing in low-energy technology or merely urging guests to reuse their towels.

The GMB union said the other day that local councils should be given the power to compulsory purchase the 173,276 holiday homes that are occupied for only a few weeks a year.

Polling day is a public holiday and voting is compulsory.