Overview

• FAECYS and the main employer chambers (CAC, CAME, UDECA) signed the date change on August 27 in Buenos Aires.
• The observance moves from Friday, September 26, to Monday, September 29, without altering the holiday’s legal protections.
• Mercantile employees are not obliged to work and, if they do so voluntarily, must receive a 100% pay surcharge under the LCT.
• Stores are not required to close and may open if attended by owners or by employees who choose to work under the corresponding pay rules.
• The agreement was submitted to the national Secretariat of Labor for homologation and Boletín Oficial publication, with administrative formalization pending.