Monday, December 3, 2007

Nicaragua Government Offices To Close From December 22 To January 1

Sources: El Nuevo Diario and Nicaragua public holidays. The Nicaragua Minister of Labor, through its spokesperson, Jeannette Chávez, announced that civil servants (as defined by Article 69 of the Nicaragua Labor Law Code) would be on public holidays leave from the evening of Friday December 21, 2007, to the morning of Wednesday January 2, 2008.

The Ministry specified that this announcement only covered civil servants, but that in any event, private sector workers are covered by article 66 of the Labor Law Code, guaranteeing all Nicaraguans at least the day of December 25 and January 1 as paid public holidays (feriados nacionales obligatorios con derecho a salario y descanso).