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Do you need a vacation to recover from your recent vacation? After the celebrations for Mexico's Independence Day, there are still a few rest days left before 2026 ends.
However, there is an important difference between the days marked on the school calendar by the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) and those that are actually established as mandatory rest days for employees under the Federal Labor Law (LFT).
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Keep reading to learn in detail what the law says about the final long weekends of the year and how the SEP will handle them.
For those with jobs governed by the LFT, the next mandatory rest day will be Monday, November 16, 2026, commemorating the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.
Although the historical date is November 20, it is established that the rest day be moved to the third Monday of the month, so in 2026 it will form one of the last two official long weekends of the year.
Officially, according to the law, December 25 will be the last long weekend of 2026 for the Christmas celebrations. This date appears on the school calendar, even though it is part of the vacation period for basic education schools.
What happens with the rest day on November 2?
November 2, Day of the Dead, is NOT a mandatory rest day established by the LFT. In the case of basic education schools, the SEP includes a suspension of activities on this date, which will join the suspension for the Technical Council of each last Friday of the month, which will occur on Friday, October 31.
How much should you be paid if you work on a mandatory rest day?
Employees who show up to work on either of these two dates must receive triple pay, according to Article 75 of the LFT, that is, their standard daily wage, plus a double wage for working on mandatory rest days.
For example: if your daily wage is 500 pesos and you work on September 16, you must receive the 500 pesos corresponding to the mandatory rest day, plus another 1,000 pesos for having worked.
In total, the payment corresponding to that shift would be 1,500 pesos. The obligation applies regardless of whether the worker has to provide their services during part or all of the agreed-upon shift.
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