If you already have your plans ready for this holiday by Holy Weekwhich is Thursday, April 14 and Friday, April 15, it is important that you know what the next non-working days of 2022 are so that you can schedule your activities in time.
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The government, through Supreme Decree No. 033-2022-PCM, issued a list of non-working days so that, together with holidays, a long weekend bridge can be created in order to encourage tourism, one of the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic. They can also take advantage of the days to rest and enjoy family time.
Although holidays are paid non-working days without substitute rest throughout the country, non-working days are for public sector workers. However, the work centers of the private sector may take advantage of non-working days, prior agreement between the employer and its workers, who must establish the way in which the recovery of the hours left to work will be effective. In the absence of agreement, the employer will decide.
WHAT ARE THE 2022 HOLIDAYS IN PERU?
Next, we present the calendar of holidays in the country in 2022:
January
- Saturday January 1: New Year
April
- Thursday, April 14: Holy Thursday
- Friday April 15: Good Friday
- Sunday April 17: Easter Sunday
May
- Sunday May 1: Labor Day.
June
- Wednesday June 29: Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
July
- Thursday, July 28: National Holidays.
- Friday, July 29: National Holidays.
August
- Tuesday, August 30: Santa Rosa de Lima.
October
- Saturday October 8: Angamos Naval Battle.
November
- Tuesday, November 1: All Saints’ Day.
December
- Thursday December 8: Immaculate Conception.
- Friday, December 9: Battle of Ayacucho (public sector).
- Sunday December 25: Christmas.
WHAT ARE THE NON-WORKING HOLIDAYS IN 2022?
Next, these are the non-working holidays declared, through Supreme Decree No. 033-2022-PCM, published today in the official newspaper El Peruano.
- Monday May 2.
- Friday June 24.
- Monday August 29.
- On Friday, October 7.
- On Monday, October 31.
- On Monday, December 26.
- On Friday, December 30.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOLIDAY AND NON-BUSINESS DAY?
Holidays are paid breaks that are not compensated; while non-working days are decreed by the Government. If you do not work on a non-working day, you must compensate later those hours. The The rule states that the hours left to work during the non-working days established in this supreme decree will be compensated in the ten days immediately following, or at the opportunity established by the head of each public entity, based on their own needs.
FOR WHOM ARE NON-WORKING DAYS NOT APPLICABLE?
Private entities and companies that carry out health and sanitation services, cleaning and sanitation, electricity, water, drainage, gas and fuel, burials, communications and telecommunications, transportation, ports, airports, security, custody, surveillance, and transfer of valuables and sale of provisions and food; they are empowered to determine the jobs that are excluded from non-working days, and the respective workers who will continue to work, in order to guarantee services to the community, indicates the norm.
