SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 16 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government Council has authorised the draft Decree on Monday, which determines the schedule of non-working holidays for the autonomous community in 2025 – within the annual cap of fourteen days – and initiates the process for establishing local holidays.
The initiative, processed by the Department of Tourism and Employment in accordance with national legislation, specifies as non-working days for employment purposes, which are paid and not recoverable, all Sundays throughout the year along with the holidays of 1 January, New Year’s Day; 6 January, Epiphany; 17 April, Holy Thursday; 18 April, Good Friday; 1 May, Labour Day; 30 May, Canary Islands Day; 15 August, Assumption of the Virgin; 1 November, All Saints’ Day; 6 December, Spanish Constitution Day; 8 December, Immaculate Conception; and 25 December, Christmas Day.
It also designates the non-working holidays particular to each island, which feature February 3, the feast of the Virgin of Candelaria; in Tenerife, July 5, the feast of the Descent of the Virgin of the Kings, in El Hierro; August 5, the feast of Our Lady of Las Nieves, in La Palma; September 19, the feast of Our Lady of the Rock, in Fuerteventura; September 8, the feast of Our Lady of the Pine in Gran Canaria; September 15, the feast of Our Lady of the Volcanoes, in Lanzarote and La Graciosa; and October 6, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in La Gomera.
Municipalities across all the Canary Islands will have a month, commencing from the publication of the decree discussed today in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC), to submit their proposals to the General Directorate of Labour, aimed at establishing up to two non-working, paid and non-recoverable days as local holidays that reflect their own traditions.
