Holidays and Special Days for 2022

RA No. 9492 (July 24, 2007) amended Section 26, Chapter 7, Book I of Executive Order (EO) No. 292 (Administrative Code of 1987) by declaring certain days as special or regular holidays.
RA No. 9849 (December 11, 2009) provides that Eidul Adha shall be celebrated as a national holiday.
RA No. 10966 (December 28, 2017) provides that December 8 of every year shall be celebrated as a special non-working holiday to commemorate the Feast of the Immaculate Concepcion of Mary.
The Proclamation directs how future proclamations for Eidul Fitr and Eidul Adha shall be issued based on Islamic or lunar calculations.

The Proclamation adopts a holiday schedule for 2022 that includes regular holidays and special days across working and non-working categories.
It encourages economic productivity after the advance economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by minimizing work disruption through commemorating some special holidays as special (working) days instead.
It recognizes cultural and national observances including the Chinese New Year, the EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary, and Holy Week observances.
It accounts for the need to align Muslim holiday dates with the Islamic calendar (Hijra) or lunar calendar, or Islamic astronomical calculations.

Section 1(A) requires observation of the following regular holidays for 2022:
New Year’s Day is 1 January (Saturday).
Araw ng Kagitingan is 9 April (Saturday).
Maundy Thursday is 14 April.
Good Friday is 15 April.
Labor Day is 1 May (Sunday).
Independence Day is 12 June (Sunday).
National Heroes Day is 29 August (Las Monday of August).
Bonifacio Day is 30 November (Wednesday).
Christmas Day is 25 December (Sunday).
Rizal Day is 30 December (Friday).

Section 1(B) requires observation of the following special (non-working) days for 2022:
Chinese New Year is 1 February (Tuesday).
EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary is 25 February (Friday).
Black Saturday is 16 April.
Ninoy Aquino Day is 21 August (Sunday).
All Saint’s Day is 1 November (Tuesday).
Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is 8 December (Thursday).

Section 1(C) requires observation of the following special (working) days for 2022:
All Soul’s Day is 2 November (Wednesday).
Christmas Eve is 24 December (Saturday).
Last Day of the Year is 31 December (Saturday).

Section 2 provides that proclamations declaring national holidays for Eidul Fitr and Eidul Adha shall be issued after the approximate dates are determined.
The determination must be in accordance with the Islamic calendar (Hijra) or the lunar calendar, or upon Islamic astronomical calculations, whichever is possible or convenient.
Section 2 requires that the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos recommend to the Office of the President the actual dates on which these holidays shall respectively fall.

Section 3 directs the Department of Labor and Employment to promulgate the implementing guidelines for the Proclamation.

The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, issues the Proclamation by virtue of the powers vested in the Constitution as President.
Salvador C. Medialdea, as Executive Secretary, acts for and on behalf of the President in the Proclamation.
Section 5 mandates publication in a newspaper of general circulation to effect the Proclamation’s dissemination.