Monaco confirms 2 November 2026 a paid public holiday for all staff

Monday 2 November 2026 is a statutory public holidayGouv, closed and paid for every employee in Monaco regardless of how they are paidGouv. Circulaire n° 2026-10 of 1 October 2026 treats the Monday as the carry-over of Sunday 1 November 2026, All Saints' DayGouv: where All Saints' Day falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a statutory holiday under Article 1 of Loi n° 798 of 18 February 1966Legimonaco, and Loi n° 800 governs its pay and working conditions.

The payment duty goes beyond the Monday itself. Following the obligations restated in Direction du Travail circulaire n° 79-93 of 13 November 1979, the legal holiday is also paid where it falls on the employee's weekly rest day or on a day normally or partially not worked in the business. Loi n° 800 states the same rule: the holidays set by Article 1 of Loi n° 798 are compulsorily closed and paid for all employees whatever their pay mode, and they are also paid where they coincide with the weekly rest day or with a working day normally or partially idle in the firm.

Payroll consequences depend on the pay mode. Hourly, daily and output-paid staff receive compensation equal to the wages lost through the stoppage; where the holiday falls on a rest day or a normally idle day, it is computed on the hourly wage in force at the time and the average daily working time over the four weeks before the week containing the holiday. Weekly, fortnightly and monthly staff suffer no reduction of the period's pay; where the holiday falls on a rest day or idle day, each such day gives rise either to an allowance of one-sixth, one-thirteenth or one-twenty-fifth of the weekly, fortnightly or monthly wage, or to paid compensatory rest set by the sector's regulatory or collectively agreed rules.

Two conditions limit the right. Payment is due only where the worker properly worked the usually-worked day before and the day after the holiday, apart from exceptional absences such as paid leave, authorised interruptions, work accidents, illness, marriage, bereavement or birth. And in establishments and services that cannot stop work because of the nature of their activity, staff kept on on the closed-and-paid holiday receive, on top of the wage for the work, either an allowance equal to that wage or paid compensatory rest.

The statutory holidays set by Article 1 of Loi n° 798 replace those set by collective agreements or usages that fixed them differently or in smaller number, without ever reducing a larger collectively agreed or customary tally. Hours lost to the holiday may be made up only where they brought the working week below forty hours, otherwise by agreement with staff. Breach is punishable by the fine at chiffre 3 of Article 29 of the Penal Code, rising on repeat offending within a year to the fine at chiffre 1 of Article 26.

Legal basis: Circulaire n° 2026-10 du 1er octobre 2026 relative au lundi 2 novembre 2026, report du dimanche 1er novembre 2026 (jour de la Toussaint), jour férié légal; Loi n° 798 du 18 février 1966; Loi n° 800 du 18 février 1966.