The carnival holiday in Ecuador is the first longest of the year, with four days, when Monday and Tuesday are added to the weekend. East carnival 2022 will be from Saturday 26, Sunday 27, Monday February 28 and Tuesday March 1.
According to the Organic Law Reforming the Organic Law of Public Service and the Labor Code, approved in December 2016, the rest days of this holiday are not recoverable.
Calendar of national holidays and by provinces for Ecuador this 2022
Ecuador has 11 national days in total, according to said law, enacted in 2016 and whose purpose is to regulate holidays.
In addition, the national Emergency Operations Committee determined that for the carnival holiday There are no restrictions on mobility, capacity and hours for the beaches, due to the elimination of the epidemiological traffic light regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
VAT reduction in tourist activities
This year’s carnival has the peculiarity of a reduction of the tax to 8% for tourist activities, after the issuance of the executive decree of the president Guillermo Lasso in which he formalized the reduction of value added tax (VAT) from 12% to 8% for those days.
Pay for working on holidays
According to him article 55, numeral 4 of the Labor Codework on rest days, such as Saturday and Sunday, must be paid with a 100% surcharge, as it is extraordinary work.
Namely, every hour worked on a rest day is paid double.
This is Also applicable for holidays or holidays. Because they are non-recoverable rest days, they are also taken as extraordinary work.
The foregoing is contemplated in the third general provision of the Reform:
“In those industries or jobs in the private sector in respect of which, due to their nature and manifest condition, activities cannot be interrupted during mandatory rest days, another equal time of the week must be designated for rest, by agreement between the employer and workers, or pay their workers the corresponding remuneration, with the corresponding surcharge for extraordinary work.
To calculate the pay for working on holidayswhat you should do is Divide your salary by 30 (days) and multiply the result by 2.
To estimate the hourly pay on holidays, what you should do is find out how much your hourly payment is on a regular day. The value is estimated at divide your daily wage by the 8 hours of the dayto regulate (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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