This Week There Are Two Legal
Holiday Days, Thursday and Friday
According to Costa Rica's Código de Trabajo
(Labour Code) Good Thursday (April 1) and
Good Friday (April 2) are legal holidays and
workers who are required to work on those
days are to be paid double their normal
salary.
The Código also stipulates that for those
workers who take the entire Semana Santa
(Holy Week) off, employers have the right to
reduce their vacation period by three days
(Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday).
The normal practice for the central
government and many public institutions is
to close the entire week and in agreement
with the workers and unions, the first three
days of the week are vacation days. Some
300.000 public sector employees will be
enjou=ying the entire week, and if you
include the weekends, the total time off
comes to 9 days.
The private sector may treat the week
closing different, giving employees the
entire week off and without a reduction in
salary for the three days or using vacation
days.
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