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Bank and Public Holidays for Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

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16 May 2012 (Ministerio de Trabajo República Dominicana-Santo Domingo) The Ministry of Labour of the Dominican Republic has issued an official communiqué announcing that, as per the provisions of electoral law, Sunday, May 20, 2012, the date of the upcoming presidential election will be an official non-working public holiday. • 24 Apr 2012 (Ministerio de Trabajo República Dominicana-Santo Domingo) The Ministry of Labour of the Dominican Republic has issued an official communiqué confirming that the upcoming "Día del Trabajo" public holiday will be moved from its traditional date of May 1st to Monday, April 30, 2012. • 26 Jan 2012 (Portal del Senado de la República Dominicana-Santo Domingo) The Dominican Republic's lower house of parliament (Cámara de Diputados) has let lapse (expire) last spring's bill to remove the January 6 and January 26 annual non-working public holidays from the scope of the law 139-97 which regulates non-working public holidays in the Dominican Republic. • 24 Jan 2012 (Ministerio de Trabajo República Dominicana-Santo Domingo) The Ministry of Labour of the Dominican Republic has issued an official communiqué confirming that the upcoming "Día de Duarte" public holiday will be moved from its traditional date of January 26 to Monday, January 30, 2012. • 02 Jan 2012 (Ministerio de Trabajo República Dominicana-Santo Domingo) The Ministry of Labour of the Dominican Republic has issued an official communiqué confirming that the upcoming "Día de los Santos Reyes" (Epiphany) public holiday will be moved from its traditional date of January 6 to Monday, January 9, 2012. • 02 Dec 2011 (Centro de Informacion Gubernamental-Santo Domingo) A bill has been introduced in the Dominican Republic's house of representatives which would declare December 1st as a new annual non-working public holiday. • 01 Nov 2011 (Ministerio de Trabajo República Dominicana-Santo Domingo) The Ministry of Labour of the Dominican Republic has announced the official listing of public holidays in the the Dominican Republic for the year 2012. • 22 Sep 2011 (Ministerio de Trabajo República Dominicana-Santo Domingo) The Dominican Republic's Ministry of Labour has announced that the upcoming "Nuestra Señora de Las Mercedes" public holiday would remain on its fixed date of September 24. • 14 Aug 2011 (Ministerio de Trabajo República Dominicana-Santo Domingo) In a last-minute announcement, the Dominican Republic Ministry of Labour has declared Tuesday, August 16, 2011, as a non-working public holiday for this year's Restoration Day (Día de la Restauración) holiday. • 21 Jul 2011 (Centro de Informacion Gubernamental-Santo Domingo) The Dominican Republic Ministry of Labour has announced that, contrary to what it had officially announced last fall, the non-working public holiday for the upcoming Restoration Day (Día de la Restauración) will be on Tuesday, August 16, 2011. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Dominican Republic public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in the Dominican Republic are governed by the nuevo Código de Trabajo (Ley No. 16-92) in its updated version of 1999, and by the Ley núm. 108 que señala los días festivos y por tanto no laborables en las oficinas públicas y particulares which replaced the law 3933, of September 20, 1954, and by the Ley No. 139-97 mediante la cual los días feriados del calendario que coincidan con los días martes y miércoles, jueves o viernes. • Mid-Week Public Holidays: The moving of some of the fixed-date public holidays, to the nearest Monday, is set out in the law 139-97 of June 19, 1997, which states that public holidays that are neither patriotic, nor religious, in character, shall be moved to the closest Monday if they occur on a weekday. However, these changes are subject to official confirmation near the end of every year, for the following year. • Eves: Although they aren't official public holidays, most people take off the afternoons of Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. • Dominican Republic International Codes DO and DOM (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .do (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Dominican Republic information and news: Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Dominican Republic maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Dominican Republic), and Wikipedia (includes Dominican Republic commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Dominican Republic, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Dominican Republic, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Dominican Republic. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

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In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Dominican Republic, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Dominican Republic, before planning any trip to Dominican Republic. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.