Sunday, February 26, 2012

Portugal Carnival Public Holiday 2013

Sources: Agência Efe (Lisboa) and Portugal bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Portugal's Deputy Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Miguel Relvas, has announced that, in 2013, there would be no tolerância de ponto for public sector employees to take a non-working public holiday for the optional but widespread Shrove Tuesday Carnival. [full story]