Is today a Colombian Holdiay?

sandramoreno80 says on Jun 11, 2007, 13:35:

Corpus Cristi and next Monday its another holiday for the Sacred Heart. Then on Monday 2nd July it's holiday for St Peter.

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RUV says on Jun 11, 2007, 14:26:

Thank you.
It seems like Thank you.

It seems like Colombia has allot of holidays. They even gave Peter one for creating this site.

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Ctg Bound says on Jun 11, 2007, 14:30:

RUV Yep, way to many public holidays in Colombia.

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Waterdawg says on Jun 11, 2007, 15:17:

I do believe . there are 18 in all & then throw in Vacation time !

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RUV says on Jun 11, 2007, 19:09:

Are most of these religious holidays?

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billyb says on Jun 12, 2007, 07:03:

The way I look at it.... you can never have too many holidays.

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juanalejo says on Jun 12, 2007, 07:24:

Holidays Most (if not all Holidays) that move on to a Monday are religious Holidays. National Holidays do not move (20th of July, 7th of August). Others that do not move are 1st of May (Labour Day), 25th of December and 1st of January. Although there was an iniciative not long ago to get rid of a few Holidays and this was applauded by most industry leaders, unions and the tourism industry opposed it as for the first it meant working more for the same money (salaries in Colombia go by month not by working hour/day) and long weekends are a big source of income for small Holiday towns and villages.

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Frank Rizzo says on Jun 12, 2007, 07:24:

We looked at this once There is something close to 45 holidays per year or something. Someone please let us know exactly.

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juanalejo says on Jun 12, 2007, 07:36:

18 It is actually 18 public Holidays including Good Thursday and Good Friday.

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Frank Rizzo says on Jun 12, 2007, 07:59:

so juan, that makes it about 1/2 the weeks in the year...thus the real work week in colombia is 4.5 days (a bit more)?? Taking into account the 2 hour lunch, what does that really mean?

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Frank Rizzo says on Jun 12, 2007, 08:41:

It actually does affect them rubito I employ a dozen workers in colombia remodeling homes there. They show up late, they stop 1 minute before noon and start up 10 minutes after 2. By 5 pm they are working so slow that they might as well go home. This is the majority, though not all we have a couple of good ones. Lazy workers, most of them (not all for sure).

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aztec says on Jun 13, 2007, 10:41:

Is today a Colombian Holdiay?

Must be a rhetorical question because it was Monday.

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