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The Christmas bonus is an “additional salary” that must be paid by any employer to workers, regardless of their activity, within the first twenty days of December of each year.  The Christmas bonus is a right that all workers have, regardless of their mode of payment. This right is granted to workers who have worked […]

Last November 22, 2021, was published in the Official Gazette “La Gaceta” the law to declare August as the historical month of Afrodescendence in Costa Rica, law number 10050, which decrees August 31 as a holiday in commemoration of the Day of the Black Person and the Afro-Costa Rican Culture. Reforming article 148 of the

Today was published in La Gaceta the resolution of the Ministry of Health number MS-DM-RM-6735-2021 where the list of vaccines accepted to enter Costa Rica was expanded. These are: VACCINE ALTERNATIVE NAME DOSES AstraZeneca / Oxford Covishield Vaxzevria AZD1222 ChAdOx1 ChAdOx1_nCoV19 India 2 Pfizer/ BioNTech Comirnaty BNT162b2 Tozinameran 2 Moderna Spikevax mRNA-1273 2 Janssen COVID-19

Recently, a bill called “LAW FOR THE ATTRACTION OF FILM INVESTMENTS IN COSTA RICA” was approved, which aims to take advantage of the human talent and privileged locations to attract the international film industry to Costa Rica. The law grants several  favorable tax exoneration benefits, namely: a) Exemption from income tax on personal dependent or independent

In addition to the provisions of Decree No. 43249-S published yesterday, which yesterday, which established the mandatory vaccination in the public and private sector, the  public and private sectors, the Government announced today in a press conference and through  social     networks (https://www.facebook.com/CasaPresidencial)  that as of December 1, 2021, the QR code will be required for

The decree states that based on article 3 of the National Vaccination Law, Law number 8111 of July 18, 2001, as well as ordinals 2 and 18 of the Regulation to the National Vaccination Law, Executive Decree number 32722 of May 20, 2005, the COVID-19 vaccine will be mandatory for the personnel established by the

The National Vaccination Commission published today on the portal of the Ministry of Health the news below where it is stated that vaccination against COVID-19 will be mandatory for all public employees as well as for those employees of the private sector whose employer has included vaccination as mandatory in the workplace. This provision will

The purple orchid popularly known as the purple guaria whose scientific name is Cattleya Skineri blooms in the months of February and March. The purple guaria was decreed as a national flower in the government of León Cortés Castro by the Secretary of State in the Office of Development and Agriculture, by agreement No. 24

On July 14, 2021 by means of the draft of the bill file 22.167, in which it is determined that the 2 species of sloths, the two-toed Choloepus hoffmanni and the three-toed Bradypus variegatus, and their name comes from their slow movements that also transfer to their metabolism. In Costa Rica they have a distribution