2018 LIST OF PHILIPPINE HOLIDAYS

The Malacanang Palace released last week the list of holidays for the year 2018. Under Proclamation No.269, two non-working holidays are added to the list, November 2, to provide more time for the traditional celebration of All Saint’s Day and All Souls’s Day and December 24, to fortify family ties and promote domestic tourism as well.

The Labor Code of the Philippines designates two types of holidays with different computation of daily rates of the employee. For those who prefer to work during REGULAR HOLIDAY should be paid 200 percent of the sum of their basic daily salary rate while employees who work on SPECIAL NON-WORKING DAY are paid at least 130 percent of their basic daily salary.

Here is the list of 2018 Holidays

Date                    Holiday                                   Types of Holidays

January 01          New Year’s Day                        Regular Holiday

February 16         Chinese New Year                   Special Non-working day

February 25         EDSA People Revolution      Special Non-working day

March 29             Maundy Thursday                  Regular Holiday

March 30            Good Friday                              Regular Holiday

March 31              Black Saturday                        Special Non-working day

April 09               Araw ng Kagitingan                Regular Holiday

May 01                 Labor Day                                 Regular Holiday

June 12                Independence Day                  Regular Holiday

August 21            Ninoy Aquino Day                   Special Non-working day

August 27            National Heroes Day              Regular Holiday

November 01      All Saint’s Day                          Regular Holiday

November 02      All Soul’s Day                           Special Non-working day

November 30      Bonifacio Day                           Regular Holiday

December 24      Christmas Eve                          Special Non-working day

December 25      Christmas Day                          Regular Holiday

December 30      Rizal Day                                   Regular Holiday

December 31       New Year’s Eve                        Special Non-working day

The proclamation of Eid’l Fitr 2018 and Eid ul Adha 2018 will be issued when the Islamic holiday will be determined in accordance with Islamic calendar. These two Muslim religious holidays will be declared under separates proclamation by Malacañang. Maybe it will be announced on early June 2018.

Now that you know the complete list of holidays, you may start plan your get away and watch out the promos fares that accords with the regular and non-working holidays.

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