August 6: Will this holiday also apply to the private and public sector?

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On July 26, the official newspaper El Peruano made public the officialization of Law 31530, which declares today August 6 as a national holiday. The regulations were approved in order to commemorate the Battle of Junín. In this way, public entities and institutions will be able to enjoy one more holiday in the 2022 calendar.

Many citizens have just become aware of this law, and therefore, doubts have arisen about whether it also applies to the private sector, as well as the salary payments that correspond by law to those who work on holidays.

Given this, we resolve these doubts in the following paragraphs.

This August 6 holiday reaches both the public and private sectors, as explained by the labor lawyer Ricardo Herrera for the newspaper La República.

“Although it is true that article 1 of the law that declares August 6 as a holiday only refers to the public sector, Article 2 modifies the law of paid breaks, which is Legislative Decree 713, and in that modification includes this date as a holiday. In this way it is demonstrated that it is also a national holiday for the private sector”, pointed out the specialist for the aforementioned medium.

In this way, remote or face-to-face workers from private companies will also be able to request their legal benefits from the entity to which they are subject. It is worth mentioning that the contracting company has the duty to pay a salary plus double this remuneration to its employees or to negotiate a substitute break.

If you work on August 6, you will receive a double payment at the end of the month and this applies to both the public and private sectors. Remember that the total payment of your salary includes all the holidays of the month, so the first payment on August 6 is already covered.

However, if you work on this date, take into account that you will receive a double payment as indicated by law.

For example, if the worker receives S/ 1,500 soles per month, he must divide it by 30 days and the result will be 50. That means that, per day worked, he receives S/ 50 soles.

So if you work on August 6, by that date you will receive an additional S/ 100 soles, an amount that you will see at the end of the month.

FACT: It is not called a triple payment because the general payment is one that the worker already knows and the additional amount is only equivalent to two payments, according to ‘El Peruano’.

There is a national holiday and it is on August 30 and the day of Santa Rosa de Lima is celebrated. Only in the case of the public sector, August 29 is a non-working day, but compensable.

Now, according to article 6, in addition to August 6, the holidays are as follows:

– New Year 1st of January)

– Holy Thursday and Good Friday (movable)

– Labor Day (May 1)

– Saint Peter and Saint Paul (June 29)

– National Holidays (July 28 and 29)

– Saint Rose of Lima (August 30)

– Battle of Angamos (October 8)

– All Saints (November 1)

– Conception (December 8)

– Battle of Ayacucho (December 9)

– Christmas of the Lord (December 25)

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