After having passed the January 1 holiday, this year Uruguay It will have a calendar with almost 20 holidays, including those for work – including those that can be run and those that cannot – as well as non-work holidays.
For 2024, 6 non-working holidays are planned, 2 transferable, 5 non-working holidays that are immovable and 6 for tourist purposes, which accounts for a total of 19 holidays, for which there will be four long weekends: from Saturday, February 10 to Tuesday, February 13; from Thursday, March 28 to Sunday, March 31; from Saturday, April 20 to Monday, April 22; and from Saturday June 17 to Monday June 19.
Saturday, January 6 – Three Kings Day (working day)
February:
Monday, February 12 and Tuesday, February 13 – Carnival (working days, immovable)
March:
Thursday, March 28 and Friday, March 29 – Tourism Week (working days, immovable)
April:
Monday, April 22 – Disembarkation of the 33 Orientales (Working and, if still under the same law, moves to Monday, April 19).
May:
Wednesday, May 1 – Workers’ Day (non-working, does not move)
Saturday, May 18 – Battle of the Stones (working, mobile)
June:
Saturday, June 17 – Birthday of Artigas (weekdays, runs to Monday, June 19)
July:
Vacation (to be defined)
Thursday, July 18 – Swearing in of the Constitution (non-working, no running)
August:
Sunday, August 25 – Declaration of Independence (non-working, immovable)
October:
Saturday, October 12 – Day of respect for cultural diversity. (working, immovable)
November:
Saturday, November 2 – All Souls’ Day (working days, no running)
December:
Wednesday, December 25 – Christmas (not working, not passed).
How are working and non-working holidays paid?
President Luis Lacalle Pou does not agree with the holidays being extended, since its reason for being is not touristic. For this to be fulfilled, the executive must modify the law, which is why it sent a project to Parliament (which has not yet been discussed since September 2021). As long as it is not discussed within the framework of the legislative branch, these three holidays will continue to run to obtain the long weekend.
Regarding working holidays, national legislation establishes that workers who receive their salary on a monthly basis will do so normally whether or not its activity is interrupted due to the holiday. Regarding day laborers, a common figure in the agricultural sector, they will receive wages only in the case of working on a holiday, that is, Thursday or Friday.
Non-working ones, on the other hand, according to law 12,590 of 1958 that governs non-working holidays in Uruguay, “Every worker will receive remuneration as if he worked; if he works, he will receive double pay.”
Source: Ambito
