federal executive officers will have office hours

Next Thursday (28/3) will be normal business hours for direct public administration bodies located in Brasília, according to the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI). The date, which precedes the Good Friday holiday, was not considered optional by the MGI.

Thursday will also be a busy day for the President of the Republic, who will receive French President Emmanuel Macron at Planalto and Itamaraty for official ceremonies. For this reason, the two main roads of Esplanada dos Ministérios (N1 and S1) will be closed to vehicles from 8am. The situation will return to normal shortly after the event.

Access to the Esplanade, for employees and other interested parties, will be via alternative routes to N2 and S2 while there is a closure.

In total, the government established ten national holidays and eight optional holidays for 2024. Check the calendar:

January 1st, Universal Fraternization (national holiday);
February 12th, Carnival (optional);
February 13th, Carnival (optional);
February 14th, Ash Wednesday (optional until 2pm);
March 29, Passion of Christ (national holiday);
April 21st, Tiradentes (national holiday);
May 1st, World Labor Day (national holiday);
May 30, Corpus Christi (optional point);
May 31st (optional point);
September 7th, Independence of Brazil (national holiday);
October 12th, Nossa Senhora Aparecida (national holiday);
October 28th, Federal Public Servants Day (optional);
November 2, All Souls’ Day (national holiday);
November 15, Proclamation of the Republic (national holiday);
November 20th, National Zombie and Black Consciousness Day (national holiday);
December 24th, Christmas Eve (optional point after 2pm).

Optional point for GDF servers

However, government employees in the Federal District will not work on Thursday. Buriti decreed an optional point for all work that is not in areas essential to citizens, such as health, security, health surveillance, communication and social assistance, as well as tax inspection, urban protection, consumer protection, urban cleaning and transport. .