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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 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2008.
Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Human Rights Day : Friday, 21 March, 2008
3. Family Day : Monday, 24 March, 2008
4. Freedom Day observance : Monday, 28 April, 2008
5. Workers' Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
6. Youth Day : Monday, 16 June, 2008
7. Heritage Day : Wednesday, 24 September, 2008
8. Day of Reconciliation : Tuesday, 16 December, 2008
9. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
10. Day of Goodwill : Friday, 26 December, 2008
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Freedom Day : Sunday, 27 April, 2008
2. National Women's Day : Saturday, 9 August, 2008