Servidores Públicos Unidos (SPU) demanded on Wednesday that the Puerto Rico government stop charging administratively declared free days to the vacation leave balances of public employees.^[1] The union put a number on it. Jessica Martínez Santos, president of SPUPR, said on Wednesday that the government should not charge public workers vacation leave for three scheduled 2026 holiday days.^[2] The facts in hand state the demand and the three days at issue; they do not say how the government has responded, or whether the practice the union describes is in force. That is the thread to follow.