Vitoria (EFE).- The Basque Government has approved the work calendar for next year.
March 8 remains a working day, as planned, and which is basically similar to this year.
The calendar maintains the same festive dates as in 2023, with the addition of January 1, which this year was a Sunday.
It does not list December 8, which will be a Sunday in 2024.
March 8 will not be a holiday
As planned, March 8, Women’s Day, is not established as a holiday, as the vicelehendakari, Idoia Mendia, had proposed, due to the reluctance of groups and organizations such as Emakunde.
The Basque Government assures that it has listened to the opinions of those who consider that March 8 could be an occasion to promote “other actions of labor scope, such as a strike in the care sector”, although it has not yet been specified.
In order “not to hinder” any other initiative of the different feminist associations, the Government has chosen to follow the usual calendar, without seeking alternatives to the dates that the regulations provide by default.
In this way, moreover, Emakunde is given time to complete the reflection process entrusted by the Basque Parliament to establish a non-working day to commemorate the cause of equality.
Labor calendar with twelve holidays
Therefore, the twelve holidays that the work calendar will have in Euskadi next year are: January 1 (New Year); January 6 (Kings); March 28 (Holy Thursday); March 29 (Good Friday); April 1 (Easter Monday).
Sunbeds on the beach. EFE/Elvira Urquijo
Henceforth, May 1 (Labourer’s Day); July 25 (James); August 15 (The Assumption) and October 12 (National holiday).
For the end of the year, November 1 (All Saints); December 6 (Constitution Day) and December 25 (Christmas).
To these days we must add two more holidays that must be decreed by city councils and provincial councils. EFE