Overview

• Argentina’s Cabinet Office formalized the transfer of the Oct. 12 Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural to Friday, Oct. 10, 2025 via Resolution 139/2025, creating a three‑day weekend.
• That move implements Decree 614/2025, which authorizes shifting transferable holidays that fall on a weekend to the nearest Friday or Monday.
• Because Oct. 10 is a national holiday, employees who work that day are entitled to double pay under Argentina’s labor law.
• Peru’s Congressional Labor Commission approved a draft to move four holidays to the following Monday (June 7, July 23, Aug. 6, Nov. 1) and reserve national holiday declarations to Congress, with non‑working days left to the Executive after regulatory‑impact review.
• The Peruvian proposal still requires debate in the full Congress, as officials cite Central Bank estimates that each holiday trims annual growth by about 0.04 percentage points, and Spain illustrates varied approaches with five regions shifting Oct. 12 to Monday the 13th.