Labor Day: Understand if May 1 is a holiday or optional point
The national holiday in Brazil has been considered a national holiday in Brazil since May 1, 1949 and represents the strike in the US City of Chicago in 1886. This year, the date will take place on Thursday.
Labor Day entered the official calendar from the Senate and House passed by President Arthur Bernards in 1924. According to the Federal Senate, this holiday was born with the aim of celebrating the “universal brotherhood of the working class” and “Labor Marthers”.
By the time the law was passed, there were already protests against the exploitation of the work on May 1. It is its main goal of reducing daily working hours in the United States, which has inspired it and other strikes around the world, which has reached 17 hours.
In Brazil a hundred years ago, labor rights were practically. According to the Federal Senate, there are no laws that determine the portfolio, maximum working day, night extra and unhealthy, overtime payment, weekly rest, paid holidays, maternity leave or retirement.
Despite the serious and approval of the act of converting the date into a holiday, labor laws were consolidated only in May 1943; Marketing milestone to change in the daily life of the worker
See the next 2025 holidays:
- June 19, Corpus Christist (optional point);
- June 20 (optional point);
- September 7, independence of Brazil (national vacation);
- October 12, Our Lady Areesida (National Holiday);
- October 28, Federal Public Servant Day (optional point), to be celebrated on 27;
- November 2, All Souls (national vacation);
- November 15, Republic statement (national leave);
- November 20, National Zombie and Black Awareness Day (National Holiday);
- December 24, Christmas Eve (optional point after 1 noon);
- December 25, Christmas (national vacation); And and
- December 31, New Year Eve (optional point after 1 pm).
