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.
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🇨🇷Costa Rica
Workers are entitled to two weeks of paid vacation for every 50 weeks of continuous service. For comparison, two weeks on a five-day schedule equals 10 workdays.
Statutory paid annual leaveTwo weeks after 50 weeks of continuous service (≈10 workdays on a 5-day week)Annual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent10 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedCosta Rica — Ministry of Labour and Social Security
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Legal basis and comparison method
Workers are entitled to two weeks of paid vacation for every 50 weeks of continuous service. For comparison, two weeks on a five-day schedule equals 10 workdays.
Normalization: Two statutory weeks are represented as 10 workdays on a five-day schedule.
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: Costa Rica — Ministry of Labour and Social Security. 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.
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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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