Sources: El Universo (Guayaquil) and Ecuador public holidays. Despite last year's executive decree Nº 418 decree fixing public holidays for the period 2008-2011, once and for all (see our post of June 20, 2007), Ecuador's Tourism Minister, Verónica Sión, announced yesterday that her ministry was working on a decree that would move the 2008 observance of the Labour Day public holiday (Día del Trabajo) from Thursday, May 1st, to Friday, May 2nd, 2008.(April 26) The final decree, announced by the Ministry of Tourism, does not move the May 1st public holiday to May 2nd, but rather adds May 2nd as a bridge public holiday, which is to be recuperated by having Saturday, May 10, 2008, as a regular working day.
(April 30) The signed decree (Decreto Ejecutivo 1046), finally released by the Ministry of Tourism, stipulates that Saturday May 17, 2008, will be a regular working day in compensation for the bridge public holiday of May 2nd. This change, from the earlier announced recuperation date (May 10) seems to have been due to the realization that the day after, May 11, was Mothers' Day.
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