How many working days in year 2006?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2006 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 2006.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Epiphany : Friday, 6 January, 2006
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 17 April, 2006
3. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2006
4. Constitution Day : Wednesday, 3 May, 2006
5. Corpus Christi : Thursday, 15 June, 2006
6. Assumption of Mary : Tuesday, 15 August, 2006
7. All Saints' Day : Wednesday, 1 November, 2006
8. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2006
9. Boxing Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2006
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2006
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 16 April, 2006
3. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 4 June, 2006
4. Independence Day : Saturday, 11 November, 2006