Overview
- Peru’s long weekend runs from Saturday, December 6, through Tuesday, December 9, with national holidays on Monday (Immaculate Conception) and Tuesday (Battle of Ayacucho).
- Private-sector employees who work on December 8 or 9 without compensatory rest are entitled to triple pay, while a granted compensatory day changes the entitlement to double pay.
- El Comercio explains that, beyond the holiday pay, working a holiday without a compensatory day requires an extra payment equal to two daily wages, and it illustrates calculations using the monthly salary divided by 30.
- A court-ordered suspension of toll collection at the Villa and Punta Negra stations from December 6 to 9 allows free transit on the Panamericana Sur, with Lima’s municipality assuming operations after Rutas de Lima said it would cease for lack of funds.
- In Argentina, the Interior Ministry confirms no extra puente will precede December 8 under Law 27.399, with the year’s three non-working tourism days already used on May 2, August 15 and November 21; the remaining December holidays there are December 8 and 25.