Colombian labor law grants employees employees formal, who have dependency contracts with their company or employer, 15 working days of paid holidays.
For each year worked, you can request your 15 days, which translates into three full weeks, with Saturdays and Sundays, however, there are several who calculate the best date to ask for vacations and extend them as much as possible.
The main idea is that you take advantage of the holidays and stick your days off to these dates so that you can turn 15 days off into 26 business days without having to to work and receiving salary in a normal way. Ideally, you should request vacations for the following dates.
when to order holidays in Colombia in 2023?
- March April: The best months to take vacations are March and April, because you can join the bridge of March 19 with Easter, in the following way: ask for vacations from March 21 to April 12.
- April May: The second option, if they do not give you the dates, is to take them from April 28 to May 19, and you will keep the figure of 25 calendar days to rest, since you take two holidays.
- June July: The third option is to request vacations from June 23 to July 14. He would end up resting 23 calendar days.
- July – July: The fourth option is to request a vacation from July 4 to the 24 of the same month. You will have 22 calendar days to rest, in the middle of the high season.
- July August: The fifth and last date that we recommend is from July 24 to August 14, when you can rest for 23 days without interruptions.
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This video summarizes well that possibility of converting 15 business days of vacation into 26 of vacation:
How many holidays are there in Colombia in 2023?
There are 20 holidays that we will have next year in Colombia and of those, there will be 18 that fall during the week, giving plenty of time to rest. This is the reason why vacations are extended, since there are a very good number of bridges that can be attached to your working vacation days, creating much longer weeks of rest, than if you requested them on any date.
Holidays in January 2023
- January 1 (Sunday): New Year
- January 9 (Monday): Three Kings Day
Holidays in March 2023
- March 20 (Monday): Saint Joseph’s Day
Holidays in April 2023
- April 2: Palm Sunday
- April 6: Holy Thursday
- April 7: Good Friday
- April 9: Easter Sunday
May 2023 holidays
- May 1 (Monday): Labor Day
- May 22 (Monday): Ascension Day
June 2023 holidays
- June 12 (Monday): Corpus Christi
- June 19 (Monday): Sacred Heart
Holidays in July 2023
- July 3 (Monday): Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- July 20 (Thursday): Independence Day
August 2023 festivities
- August 7 (Monday): Battle of Boyacá
- August 21 (Monday): The Assumption of the Virgin
Public holidays in October 2023
- October 16 (Monday): Columbus Day
Holidays in November 2023
- November 6 (Monday): All Saints
- November 13 (Monday): Independence of Cartagena
December 2023 holidays
- December 8 (Friday): Feast of the Immaculate Conception
- December 25 (Monday): Christmas