actual public holidays, Youth Day (first Sunday of July), Teacher's Day (first Friday of September) and Children's Day (first Friday of October; applicable for Primary schools) are also gazetted as school holidays. General / Presidential Elections Under Section 35 of the Parliamentary Elections Act and Section 17 of the Presidential Elections Act, Polling Day for a general election or a presidential election (but not By-elections) is a public holiday that is gazetted by the Returning Officer from the Elections Department Singapore. Under the Employment Act, employees not required to work on that day are entitled to one day off in lieu or be given one day's pay. Defunct public holidays Up to and including 1968, these few were also gazetted as public holidays but were removed to improve business competitiveness. Boxing Day - Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day. Easter Monday - Easter Monday in the Western Christian liturgical calendar is the second day of Eastertide and analogously in the Byzantine Rite is the second day of Bright Week. Holy Saturday - Holy Saturday, the Saturday of Holy Week, also known as the Great Sabbath, Black Saturday, or Easter Eve, and called "Joyous Saturday" or "the Saturday of Light" among Coptic Christians, is the day after Good Friday. Thaipusam - A Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai. Birthday of Prophet Mohamed - The observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which is celebrated in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar. Second day of Hari Raya Puasa - Second day of Hari Raya Workers' rights It is legal for employers to agree to give their employees other holidays in substitution for one or more public holidays. No act or thing relating to any government department or public authority, any judicial proceeding, any transaction, instrument or any other act or thing is rendered invalid where it is done or executed on a Sunday or public holiday. Under the Employment Act, an employee who is required to work on a public holiday is entitled to an extra day's salary at the basic rate of pay, in addition to the gross rate of pay for that holiday. The days observed as general public holidays in Singapore are declared in the schedule to the Holidays Act. According to the Ministry of Manpower, which