Easter Monday

Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday, the centre of the Christian commemoration of Jesus’s resurrection. Guinea’s decree names the Monday rather than Good Friday, Easter Sunday or the whole Easter period. Its date is calculated from Western Christianity’s movable Easter rule, which places Easter Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon associated with the March equinox; Easter Monday consequently ranges across March and April.

Christian institutions in Guinea grew through Catholic and Protestant missions during and after the colonial period, but the holiday now has nationwide labour status in a country where Muslims form the majority. Easter worship is therefore denominational, not a practice attributable to every resident. The civic day off can be shared across faiths while churches continue the services, music and family gatherings begun during Holy Week.

Decree D/2022/0526 lists Easter Monday among Guinea’s legal, non-working and paid holidays across the public, private and mixed sectors. Work is suspended except in services that cannot stop. Labour Code Articles 222.6–222.7 preserve ordinary pay, prohibit recovery of the lost hours and require additional pay for covered employees who work: the hourly rate plus 60% by day or plus 100% by night. Article 2 of the 2022 decree grants a next-working-day substitute only to Independence Day, New Year’s Day and Eid al-Fitr. It does not extend that rule to Easter Monday. A Saturday or Sunday placement therefore remains on its calendar date unless a separate, valid official measure says otherwise.