Overview

• Peru’s Congressional Labour Commission approved a draft to move the 7 Jun, 23 Jul, 6 Aug and 1 Nov holidays to the following Monday, sending the measure to a Plenary debate and vote.
• That Peruvian proposal would centralize the power to declare national holidays in Congress, require impact analyses for executive non‑working days and strip regional and local governments of authority to create feriados, while leaving inamovible dates unchanged.
• Economists and labor experts in Peru cite Banco Central estimates of growth losses per holiday and warn of costs for manufacturing, construction and SMEs, even as tourism could gain from concentrated breaks.
• Argentina applied its new transfer rule by moving the 12 October holiday to Friday 10 October via Resolution 139/2025, creating a three‑day national weekend with legal holiday pay rules in effect for those who work.
• Local calendar effects continue: Peru observes a national holiday on Wed 8 Oct; Minedu’s official schedule pauses public‑school classes from 13–17 Oct; Piura (13 Oct) and Moquegua (14 Oct) set regional non‑working days, and some Buenos Aires municipalities in Argentina add local asuetos that extend the weekend to four days for public workers.