South America · Verified annual-leave guide

🇨🇱Chile

Workers with more than one year of service generally receive 15 working days of annual vacation. For the legal vacation count, Saturdays are treated as non-working days.

Statutory paid annual leave15 working days after more than one year of serviceAnnual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent15 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedChile — Dirección del Trabajo
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How to make your leave go further

Public-holiday planning

  • Use the planner to place annual leave immediately before or after public holidays and weekends; then confirm the exact holiday calendar and entitlement with your employer before booking.

Legal basis and comparison method

Workers with more than one year of service generally receive 15 working days of annual vacation. For the legal vacation count, Saturdays are treated as non-working days.

Regional and calendar caveats

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

Official employment source: Chile — Dirección del Trabajo. Open official guidance ↗

This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.

Planner

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

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