THE next national holiday This year occurs on Thursday (1) of the week. The date is celebrated the World Labor Day which is a national holiday in Brazil.
The date enables the amendment with the weekend, making Friday (2) a optional point, according to the calendar published in the Federal Official Gazette (DOU).
The calendar of national holidays and optional points It foresees four prolonged holidays and opportunities to mend for weekends this year.
Even in the middle of the week, some services should work on a special scale.
May 1st
The day dates back to the same date as 1886, when a strike, which began in the city of Chicago, in the United States, which aimed to gain better working conditions, such as reducing the workday that reached 17 hours per day.
The demonstration had clashes with the police, arrests and deaths of workers, who inspired other demonstrations and would result in the achievements of a series of bills and rights, one of them being the fixation on the eight -hour workday, in most industrialized countries.
Check out the list with the next national holidays and optional points of 2025, after Carnival:
- May 1st (Thursday)-World Labor Day (national holiday);
- May 2 (Friday)-optional point;
- June 19 (Thursday)-Corpus Christi (optional point);
- June 20 (Friday)-optional point;
- September 7 (Sunday) – Independence of Brazil (National Holiday);
- October 12 (Sunday) – Our Lady Aparecida (National Holiday);
- October 28 (Tuesday)-Federal Public Servant Day (optional point), to be celebrated on the 27th;
- November 2 (Sunday) – All Souls (National Holiday);
- November 15 (Saturday) – Proclamation of the Republic (National Holiday);
- November 20 (Thursday)-National Day of Zombie and Black Awareness (National Holiday);
- December 24 (Wednesday),-Christmas Eve (optional point after 13h);
- December 25 (Thursday)-Christmas (national holiday);
- December 31 (Wednesday)-New Year’s Eve (optional point after 13h).
This content was originally published on Labor Day: see what is the next 2025 holiday on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil

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