How many working days in year 2014?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2014 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2014.
Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2014
2. Human Rights Day : Friday, 21 March, 2014
3. Good Friday : Friday, 18 April, 2014
4. Family Day : Monday, 21 April, 2014
5. Freedom Day observance : Monday, 28 April, 2014
6. Workers' Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2014
7. Youth Day : Monday, 16 June, 2014
8. Heritage Day : Wednesday, 24 September, 2014
9. Day of Reconciliation : Tuesday, 16 December, 2014
10. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2014
11. Day of Goodwill : Friday, 26 December, 2014
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Freedom Day : Sunday, 27 April, 2014
2. National Women's Day : Saturday, 9 August, 2014