Overview
- The working draft of the Executive's request for delegated legislative powers, published Thursday, includes a clause to “modify the regime of feriados no laborables and reduce their number.”
- The Ministry of Labor says the text is a draft and that no decision has been made to change the 16 national holidays, with Minister Juan Sheput saying the government will first evaluate impacts.
- Labor lawyers and the CGTP union have criticized the draft wording as ambiguous and demanded technical evidence and exclusion of core labor rules from the delegated-powers request.
- Peruvian law treats national holidays (feriados) as days of paid rest set by law and distinguishes them from días no laborables, and working a feriado without compensatory rest triggers triple pay under Decreto Legislativo N.º 713.
- Analysts expect the Executive to clarify or redraft the clause and carry out impact studies and social dialogue before sending a final text to the Council of Ministers and Congress, a step that would be required to change statutory holidays.