{"id":44260,"date":"2026-01-30T09:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/?p=44260"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:49:06","slug":"nicaragua-introduces-new-mandatory-public-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/nicaragua-introduces-new-mandatory-public-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua introduces new mandatory public holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20, 2026, Law No. 1272 entered into force, amending Article 66 of the Labor Code to incorporate four new mandatory national public holidays: January 18, February 2, February 21, and November 8.<\/p>\r\n<p>With this reform, as of this year, workers nationwide are entitled to up to 14 paid days off, or alternatively, to overtime pay, in accordance with applicable labor legislation.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #2263aa;\">What does this mean for employers?<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>On these dates, employees are entitled to paid rest.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>If an employee works on these days, the day is considered overtime and must be paid with a 100% surcharge over the regular daily wage.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #2263aa;\">Exceptions where work is allowed without being considered overtime:<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Activities that cannot be interrupted.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Urgent repairs due to force majeure.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Work subject to natural phenomena.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Food services linked to basic daily needs.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20, 2026, Law No. 1272 entered into force,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[301,276,216],"class_list":["post-44260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-holidays","tag-labor","tag-nicaragua-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44267,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44260\/revisions\/44267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}