How many working days in year 2008?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2008 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2008.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 24 March, 2008
3. Labour Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
4. Whit Monday : Monday, 12 May, 2008
5. National Day : Monday, 23 June, 2008
6. Assumption of Mary : Friday, 15 August, 2008
7. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
8. St. Stephen's Day : Friday, 26 December, 2008
And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:
1. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 1 November, 2008