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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Ecuador

The list of Ecuador bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes 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. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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01 May 2008 (Diario La Opinión) The signed decree (Decreto Ejecutivo 1046), declaring Friday, May 2nd, 2008, as a full national public holiday, was finally released and it stipulates that Saturday May 17, 2008, will be a regular working day in compensation for the bridge public holiday. This change, from the earlier announced recuperation date (May 10) seems to have been due to the realization that the day after, May 11, was Mothers' Day. • 26 Apr 2008 (CRE Satelital) Ecuador's Tourism Minister, Verónica Sión, announced that the 2008 Labour Day public holiday (Día del Trabajo) would remain on Thursday, May 1st, but that, in addition, Friday, May 2nd, 2008, would be a bridge public holiday, to be compensated by Saturday, May 10, 2008, being a regular working day. • 19 Apr 2008 (El Universo-Guayaquil) Despite last year's executive decree Nº 418 decree fixing public holidays for the period 2008-2011, once and for all (see our post of June 20, 2007), Ecuador's Tourism Minister, Verónica Sión, announced yesterday that her ministry was working on a decree that would move the 2008 observance of the Labour Day public holiday (Día del Trabajo) from Thursday, May 1st, to Friday, May 2nd, 2008. • 20 Mar 2008 (Presidencia del Ecuador) The government human resources department has confirmed that Friday, March 21, 2008 (Good Friday) was a paid public holiday for all civil servants, but that the day before, Thursday, March 20, would be a regular working day. • 27 Jan 2008 (El Mercurio) Saturday February 9 and Saturday February 16 will be normal working days for all sectors of the economy, both private and public, in compensation for the February 4 and February 5 Carnival public holidays. • 06 Oct 2003 (El Universo-Guayaquil) Despite earlier statements to the contrary, President Lucio Gutiérrez finally relented to the lobbying of the tourism industry and agreed to move the Guayaquil Independence Day public holiday from Thursday, October 9 to Friday, October 10, 2003, to make the public holiday into a long week-end. • More News Updates For up-to-the-minute news about public holidays trends and changes, visit our public holidays news and updates pages, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Ecuador are regulated by the Código del Trabajo, de 30 de junio de 1978, and the 1994 Ley núm. 55, reformatoria del Código del Trabajo y de la ley del Servicio Civil y Carrera Administrativa which added some national public holidays, as well as punctually issued decrees, the most recent of which was the Decreto Ejecutivo N. 418 de 19 de junio de 2007. • Mid-Week Public Holidays: Public holidays that fall in the middle of the week are often moved to a Friday or a Monday to make a long weekend. For 2007 public holidays, this was specified in the executive decree 2369 of January 12, 2007, later amended concerning the recuperation days for Carnaval (many web sites, still show the wrong recuperation dates). In any case, the official celebrations of what that day represents are observed on the actual anniversary of that commemoration day. • Battle of Pichincha Day celebrations occur on May 24th. • National Day celebrations occur on August 10th, and Guayaquil Independence Day celebrations occur on October 9th, even if the public holiday (day off) has been moved to another date. • Carnaval: The Monday and Tuesday of Carnaval were only for banks and civil servants until 2006. Then, in 2007, for one year they were extended to all private sector workers, provided they compensated by working on 2 Saturdays (March 10 and 17). This system was subsequently extended to the years 2008-2009-2010-2011. • Guayaquil Day and Quito Day are observed respectively in those cities only. • The Presidential Investiture Day is only a public holiday in Quito and is not an annual holiday. • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Central Bank of Ecuador (Ecuador central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Ecuador, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
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 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Ecuador, 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 Ecuador, before planning any trip to Ecuador. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our public holidays news and updates pages, or subscribe to our free email newsletters.