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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🇵🇾Paraguay
The Labour Code provides 12 consecutive working days after the first year and up to five years, 18 above five and up to ten years, and 30 above ten years.
Statutory paid annual leave12 working days from 1–5 years; 18 above 5–10; 30 above 10Annual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent12 days at year 1; 12 at 5 years; 18 at 10 yearsNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedParaguay — Ministry of Labour (MTESS)
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Legal basis and comparison method
The Labour Code provides 12 consecutive working days after the first year and up to five years, 18 above five and up to ten years, and 30 above ten years.
Equivalent by service length
| 1st year / first full entitlement | 12 days |
| 2 years | 12 days |
| 5 years | 12 days |
| 10 years | 18 days |
| 20+ years | 30 days |
Simplified comparison points. Actual legal thresholds may use anniversaries, cumulative service, education credits or other rules.
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: Paraguay — Ministry of Labour (MTESS). 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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