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Costa Rica - Working time - 2011


LAST UPDATE

9 August 2011


Duration

General

Every worker is entitled to 2 weeks minimum of annual leave after 50 weeks of work performed with the same employer.
Labour Code Art.153
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
  • 2009: The worker is entitled to 2 weeks minimum of holidays after fiftty weeks of work to the same employer.
  • 2007: 2 weeks minimum
  • 1995: 15 calendar days for every 50 weeks of continuous work for the same employer.

Exceptions

In general terms it is not permitted to accumulate holidays. However, it can be done once by the worker who perform specific tasks such as technical, managerial positions or similar work, when is not posible to be replaced by other worker, or when the residence of his family is situated in other Province.
Labour Code Art.159


Payment

Amount

Normally, in order to calculate the amount of remuneration that the worker is entitled during his annual leave, it shall be taken into account the average of the ordinary and extraordinary remunerations perceived in the last week; best reference term provided by Regulation regarding occupations in the agricultural sector; or the average of the last 50 weeks if working in an commercial, industrial establishment or of any type.

Annual leave shall be enjoyed, and in general, no compensation may be paid in lieu.
Labour Code Art.156,157


Number and dates

The following days are paid public holidays:
New Year’s Day (1 January), Juan Santa María Day (11 April), Good Thursday (21 April), Good Friday (22 April), Labour Day (1 May), Guanacaste Day (25 July), Mothers’Day-Assumption (15 August), Independence Day (15 September), and Christmas Day (25 December).

In addition, the 2 of August (Lady of the Angels’ Day) and 12 October(Día de la Raza Holiday) are considered public holidays but its payment is not compulsory. If the 12 of October does not fall on Monday the enjoyment shall be postponed.
Labour Code Art.148


Payment

Public Holidays are normally paid, with the exception of the 2 of August and 12 of October which payment is not compulsory.
Labour Code Art.148


Cuba - Working time - 2011


LAST UPDATE

20 October 2011

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Duration

General

Every worker is entitled to enjoy one month of paid annual leave after 11 months of effective work.
Labour Code Art.88
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
  • 2009: 30 paid days.
  • 2007: Workers are entitled to 30 paid days.
  • 1995: 30 calendar days for a period of 11 months actually worked.


Payment

Amount

Annual leave is paid.
Labour Code Art.88

Date of payment

The vacation pay is to be made before the last working day before the beginning of its enjoyment.
Labour Code Art.93


Number and dates

1 January-Revolution Day, 2nd of January-Victory of Armed Forces, 1 May- Worker’s day, 25 of July-Day before the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison, 26 July- National Rebel’s day, 27 of July-Day after the Commemoration of the Assault of the Moncada garrison, 10 October-Begining of the War of Independence Day, 25th of December-Christmas Day, and 31st of December.
Labour Code Art.83
Law-Decree No.254 Art.1
Law-Decree No.189 Art.1


Payment

Public holidays are paid with the normal payment established in the scale of salary in case of workers employed in normal schedules of work.
For those workers employed in piece-rate basis, the payment of public holidays are calculated on the basis of the average payment.
Labour Code Art.112(a)(b)


Dominica - Working time - 2011


Duration

General

Under five years of continuously service two weeks, and for five years and over of continuously service three weeks.
Labour Standards Act, Chapter 89:05 §13(a)(b)
Labour Contracts Act, Chapter 89:04 Schedule §7


Payment

Amount

The employer shall pay to the employee his regular rate of wages during the period of the vacation leave on the days on which he would normally receive wages.
Labour Standards Act, Chapter 89:05 §14(b)


Number and dates

In addition to every Sunday of the year, New Year’s Day(1st January), Carnival Monday and Tuesday(the two days immediately preceding Ash Wednesday), Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour May(1st May), Whit Monday, The first Monday of August, The Independence Day(3rd November), The Community Day(4th November), The Christmas Day(25th December) and The Boxing Day(26th December).
Public Holidays Act, Chapter 19:10 Schedule


Payment

The employee shall receive pay for the hours he would normally have worked if the day had not been a public holiday.

Where the day or the final day on which a person is under any obligation to make any payment or to do any act falls on a public holiday, the payment may be made or the act done on the next following regular day of work.
Labour Contracts Act, Chapter 89:04 Schedule §6
Public Holidays Act, Chapter 19:10 §4


Dominican Republic - Working time - 2011


LAST UPDATE

8 June 2011


Duration

General

The employer shall provide every employee a paid vacation period of two weeks, according to the following scale:
1. After a period of at least 1 year and up to 5 years, 14 days with full pay.
2. After a continuous period of work of not less than 5 years, 18 days with full pay.
Labour Code Art.177
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
  • 2009: 14 days
  • 2007: 14 days
  • 1995: 14 days.


Payment

Amount

Annual leave is remunerated with full pay.
Labour Code Art.177


Number and dates

There are 13 public holidays a year in the Dominican Republic; 1st of January, New Year’s Day, 6th of January, The Three Wise Men Day, 21st of January, Lady of Altagracia Day, 26th of January, Juan Pablo Duarte Day Holiday, 27th of February, Independence Day, 1st of May, Labour Day, 16 of August Restoration Day Holiday, 24th of September, Lady of Mercedes Day, 6th of November, Constitution Day, 25th of December, Christmas Day.
Variable days; Easter Sunday, Good Friday, Corpus Christi Thrusday.
Law No. 108 Art.1


Payment

Non-working days as stated by the Constitution or laws are paid.
Labour Code Art.165


Ecuador - Working time - 2011


LAST UPDATE

18 October 2011


Duration

General

Every worker shall be entitled to enjoy 15 consecutive days of paid annual leave, including the non working days.
Labour Code Art.69
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
  • 2009: Workers are entitled to 15 consecutive days of leave. Workers who have worked for more than five years in the same company or to the same employer, are entitled to enjoy an additional vacation day for each year worked or they will receive a remuneration.
  • 2007: 15 days
  • 1995: 15 days.

Exceptions

Workers who have worked for more than five years in the same company or to the same employer, are entitled to enjoy an additional vacation day for each year worked or they may opt for receiving a remuneration in lieu.
The additional days of annual leave due to for seniority, cannot exceed 15, unless otherwise provide by the parties through individual or collective agreement.
Labour Code Art.69


Payment

Amount

The annual leave shall be remunerated with the normal rate of payment.
Labour Code Art.69

Date of payment

The worker shall receive in advance the amount due to for annual leave.
Labour Code Art.69


Number and dates

Workers are entitled to enjoy 9 public holidays which are the following:
1st January, Good Friday, 1st May, 24th May, 10th August, 9th October, 2nd November, 3rd November, 25th December, and any other day provided for in special regulations for the different territories or sectors.
Labour Code Art.65


El Salvador - Working time - 2011


LAST UPDATE

16 November 2011


Duration

General

The length of annual leave is 15 days.
Labour Code Art.177
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
  • 2009: 15 days of annual leave.
  • 2007: 15
  • 1995: 15 days.


Payment

Amount

The annual leave will be remunerated with a sum equivalent to his ordinary wage for that period of time plus 30% of that sum.
Labour Code Art.177

Date of payment

The annual leave remuneration shall be paid before the leave starts and shall be calculated for the total of the days falling between the date of his departure and the date of return to work.
Labour Code Art.185


Number and dates

The workers are entitled to 9 public holidays with pay: January 1st; Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and saturday, May 1st, August 6th, September 15th, November 2nd, and December 25th.
In addition, also August 3rd and 5th in San Salvador, and the main day of the most important local festival, depending on the custom, in the Republic of El Salvador.
Labour Code Art.190


Payment

Public Holidays shall be enjoyed with pay.
Labour Code Art.191


Grenada - Working time - 2011


LAST UPDATE

6 April 2011


Duration

General

Workers are entitled to a period oa annual leave wih pay of not less than two weeks during the first year of employment and thereafter, three weeks.
Employment Act §56(1)
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
  • 2009: Workers are entitled to two weeks during the first year of work and thereafter, three weeks.
  • 2007: Two weeks the first year; thereafter, three weeks.


Payment

Amount

Ordinary wage.
Employment Act §56(1)

Date of payment

As far as it is practicable the employer shall pay to the employee the remuneration in respect of his leave on the last working day.
Employment Act §58(2)


Number and dates

New Years Day (the First day of January in each year), Independence Day (the 7th of February in each year), Boxing Day (The26th day of December, the Day after Christmas), Easter Monday(The 25th of April), Labour Day (The First of May), Whit Monday, Carnival Holiday (The First Monday in August and the Tuesday following the First Monday in August),
Emancipation Day (The First of August),Corpus Christi (The 23rd of June), plus all Sundays, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Good Friday.
The Official website of the Government of Grenada


Guatemala - Working time - 2011


LAST UPDATE

5 December 2011


Duration

General

The minimum duration of the annual leave period to which all workers are entitled is 15 days.
Labour Code Art.130
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
  • 2009: 15 days.
  • 2007: 15 days
  • 1995: 15 days after 1 year of continuous work (minimum of 150 days of wrok)


Payment

Amount

The amount that the worker is entitled to receive for his annual leave period shall be calculated in an average of the ordinary and extraordinary remunerations over the last 3 months if the worker is engaged in agricultural work, or over the last year for all the other categories of workers.
Labour Code Art.134

Date of payment

The amount of the annual leave shall be paid to the worker in advance to the enjoyment of such leave.
Labour Code Art.134


Number and dates

12 days
1 January, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Saturday, 1 May, 30 June, 15 September, 20 October, 1 November, 24 December afternoon, 25 December, 31 December afternoon, and the local public holiday.
Labour Code Art.127


Guyana - Working time - 2011


LAST UPDATE

28 April 2011


Duration

General

Every worker being in employment shall be allowed a period of holidays with pay of not less than one day for each completed month of employment computed from the date of engagement.

Every worker who is employed on a half-day basis shall have the half day counted as a day in the computation of periods of employment and holidays with pay.

Every worker who is employed on a daily or hourly basis, shall be allowed a period of holidays with pay of not less than one day for every period of twenty days or one hundred and sixty hours worked as the case may be.
Holidays with pay Act §3(1)(2)(3)

Exceptions

When the employment of a worker is terminated, either by such worker or by the employer, the employer shall pay to such worker in lieu of such period of holidays with pay as shall have accrued under this Act and in respect of which no payment has been made, a sum equal to the wages which would have been paid for a like period of holidays with pay if taken at that date.
Holidays with pay Act §6


Payment

Amount

In respect of a period of holidays with pay, the employer shall pay to the worker for each day of such period his current daily wage.
Holidays with pay Act §5(1)

Date of payment

If the worker so requests, the wages payable in the course of the holidays shall be paid to him before such holidays commence.
Holidays with pay Act §5(2)


Number and dates

New Years Day (the First day of January in each year), Yaou¿mun Nabi Day (Birth of the Prophet)(February 16th), Republic Day (Mashramani)(February 23rd), Phagwah (Holy)(March 20th), Good Friday(April 22nd), Easter Monday (April 25th), Independence Day(May 26th), Labour Day(May 1st), Indian Heritage Day(May 5th), CARICOM Day(July 4th), Freedom Day (Augus 1st), Eid Al Fitr, Diwali (Hindu Festival of Light)(October 26th), Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice)(November 7th), Christmas Day(December 25th), and every Sunday of the year.
Public Holidays Act §3


Payment

No person shall be compellable to make any payment or to do any other act, including noting or protesting, relating to any negotiable instrument on a public holiday, and the making of such the following day shall be equivalent.
Public Holidays Act §5


Haiti - Working time - 2011


LAST UPDATE

3 May 2011


Duration

General

Any employee continuously working upon one year of service is entitled to paid leave of at least 15 consecutive days, comprising 13 working days and 2 Sundays. Public holidays and interruptions of work due to sickness or maternity enjoyed by the worker should not be deducted from the fifteen days off.
Labour Code Art.123
Historical data (year indicates year of data collection)
  • 2009: 15 days
  • 2007: 15 days
  • 1995: 15 consecutive days after 1 year of service (consisting of 13 working days and 2 Sundays)


Payment

Amount

Normal payment plus the equivalent of all other remuneration actually received, including wages in kind, if any.
Labour Code Art.123, 128


Number and dates

Independence Day(January 1), Founders Day(January 2), Carnival Monday (March 7), Mardi Gras (March 8), Ash Wednesday (March 9), Good Friday (April 22), Labour and Agricultural Day( May1), Flag and University Day (May 18), Ascension Day(June 2), Corpus Christi(June 23), Assumption Day(August 15), Anniversary of J-J Dessalines’ Death(October 17), All Saints’ Day (November 1), All Souls’ Day(November 2), Vertières Battle Day (November 18), Christmas Day (December 25).
Labour Code Art. 111, 119, 122
Order to declare public holidays the 1st and 2nd November Art.1


Payment

The paid annual leave holidays shall be paid as normal remuneration.
Labour Code Art.108

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