Brazil has a five-and-a-half-day work week, with Saturday afternoons and Sundays off. Normal working hours are 8 hours per day and 44 hours per week. Government offices work five days a week, with Saturdays and Sundays off.



In addition to statutory holidays, workers are entitled to 30 days of paid leave each year (but the number of days of leave is reduced according to the number of absence from work). If the worker does not take annual leave, the enterprise must give financial compensation.



Brazil has many holidays, in addition to internationally recognized holidays there are many religious festivals, and the state, the city is not the same. The main national holidays are:

January 1, New Year's Day; Carnival, generally in mid-to-late February (3 days); April 2, Good Friday; 21 April, National Independence Movement Day; May 1, International Labor Day; June 3, Corpus Christi; September 7th, independence day (National Day); On October 12, The Virgin Mary's Apparition; November 2, Halloween; November 15, founding Day of the Republic (1889); December 25th, Christmas Day.