In Webchester, public holidays are days on which most businesses and non-essential services are closed. Many retail businesses (especially the larger ones) do open on some of the public holidays. There are restrictions on trading on Christmas Day and on New Year's Day. Public holidays defined by statute are called bank holidays, but this term can also be used to include common law holidays, which are held by convention. The term "public holidays" can refer exclusively to common law holidays.

There is no automatic right to time off on these days, but banks close and the majority of the working population is granted time off work or extra pay for working on these days, depending on their contracts.

Public holidays:
1 January New Year's Day
2 January New Year Holiday (Although it is a bank holiday, banks are not required to close and employers are not required to give their employees the day off as a holiday.)
14 January Julian New Year's Day (observed only in some businesses)
15 March Independence Day
17 March Saint Patrick's Day
Friday before Easter Sunday Good Friday
Sunday in Spring (movable) Easter Sunday
Monday following Easter Sunday Easter Monday
First Monday in May Labour Day Bank Holiday
Last Monday in May Spring Bank Holiday or Summer Half-Term Monday
Monday after Pentecost (50 days after Easter) Whit Monday (observed only in some businesses)
1 July Independence Day
Last Monday in August Late Summer Bank Holiday
1 November All Saints' Day
11 November Armistice Day
25 December Christmas Day
26 December Boxing Day
27 December/None (Only in a year in which 25 December is either on a Saturday or Sunday. This has the effect of adding an extra holiday when Christmas Day falls on a Sunday.)
28 December/None (This is an extra holiday added when either Christmas Day or Boxing Day falls on a Saturday.)