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How many working days in year 2000?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2000 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 2000.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Easter Monday : Monday, 24 April, 2000
2. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2000
3. Ascension Day : Thursday, 1 June, 2000
4. Whit Monday : Monday, 12 June, 2000
5. National Day : Friday, 23 June, 2000
6. Assumption of Mary : Tuesday, 15 August, 2000
7. All Saints' Day : Wednesday, 1 November, 2000
8. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2000
9. St. Stephen's Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2000

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 2000