How many working days in year 2012?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2012 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2012.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Epiphany : Friday, 6 January, 2012
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 9 April, 2012
3. Labour Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 2012
4. Constitution Day : Thursday, 3 May, 2012
5. Corpus Christi : Thursday, 7 June, 2012
6. Assumption of Mary : Wednesday, 15 August, 2012
7. All Saints' Day : Thursday, 1 November, 2012
8. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 2012
9. Boxing Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 2012
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2012
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 8 April, 2012
3. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 27 May, 2012
4. Independence Day : Sunday, 11 November, 2012