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 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 2017.
Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day observance : Monday, 2 January, 2017
2. Human Rights Day : Tuesday, 21 March, 2017
3. Good Friday : Friday, 14 April, 2017
4. Family Day : Monday, 17 April, 2017
5. Freedom Day : Thursday, 27 April, 2017
6. Workers' Day : Monday, 1 May, 2017
7. Youth Day : Friday, 16 June, 2017
8. National Women's Day : Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
9. Heritage Day observance : Monday, 25 September, 2017
10. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2017
11. Day of Goodwill : Tuesday, 26 December, 2017
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2017
2. Heritage Day : Sunday, 24 September, 2017
3. Day of Reconciliation : Saturday, 16 December, 2017