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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🇺🇾Uruguay
The general private-sector baseline is at least 20 days of annual paid leave. Counting rules can differ for monthly-paid and daily-paid workers.
Statutory paid annual leaveMinimum 20 days of annual paid leaveAnnual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent20 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedUruguay — Ministry of Labour and Social Security
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Legal basis and comparison method
The general private-sector baseline is at least 20 days of annual paid leave. Counting rules can differ for monthly-paid and daily-paid workers.
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: Uruguay — 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.
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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