How many working days in year 2016?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2016 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 2016.
Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 2016
2. Human Rights Day : Monday, 21 March, 2016
3. Good Friday : Friday, 25 March, 2016
4. Family Day : Monday, 28 March, 2016
5. Freedom Day : Wednesday, 27 April, 2016
6. Workers' Day observance : Monday, 2 May, 2016
7. Youth Day : Thursday, 16 June, 2016
8. National Women's Day : Tuesday, 9 August, 2016
9. Day of Reconciliation : Friday, 16 December, 2016
10. Day of Goodwill : Monday, 26 December, 2016
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Workers' Day : Sunday, 1 May, 2016
2. Heritage Day : Saturday, 24 September, 2016
3. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 2016
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