How many working days in year 2017?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2017 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 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 2017.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Easter Monday : Monday, 17 April, 2017
2. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2017
3. Ascension Day : Thursday, 25 May, 2017
4. Whit Monday : Monday, 5 June, 2017
5. National Day : Friday, 23 June, 2017
6. Assumption of Mary : Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
7. All Saints' Day : Wednesday, 1 November, 2017
8. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2017
9. St. Stephen's Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2017
And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2017