Santo Domingo.- Tomorrow, Friday, January 6, “Día de los Santos Reyes”, will be a normal working day since by order of the Ministry of Labor the festivity was mobilized for the following Monday, the ninth of the current month.
With the change, this next weekend (7, 8 and 9) will be long, like the first (31, 1 and 2) after the presidential declaration of January 2 as a non-working day.
With another non-working Monday, the population will have more free time to share with the family outside or inside the home. But, after the Christmas festivities, is there money left for that?
Daily work in the public and private sectors will resume on Tuesday, January 10.
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The month of January will have a total of three “long weekends” since next Monday the 30th will also be “non-working” after the MT moved the holiday of the birth of Juan Pablo Duarte to that day, originally being the 26th, which this year falls on Thursday.
After the first month of the year, the following holidays will remain as stipulates the calendar since they correspond to national and religious dates, and they are not changed according to the Law No. 139-9.
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Mobility of a “Non-working” nature on holidays
The aforementioned law excludes “non-working mobility” on January 1, New Year’s Day, January 21, the day of Our Lady of La Altagracia, February 27, National Independence Day, August 16, when coincides with the beginning of a constitutional period, September 24, Las Mercedes day and December 25, Christmas day.
“Religious holidays that are fixed by reason of the day of the week are also excluded from the scope of this law: Thursday Corpus Christi, Holy Thursday and Holy Friday”, establishes article 3.
Meanwhile, regarding May 1, International Labor Day, the regulations stipulate that, when it coincides with Sunday, its non-working nature will be in force the following Monday.
