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How many working days in year 1994?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1994 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1994.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Easter Monday : Monday, 4 April, 1994
2. Ascension Day : Thursday, 12 May, 1994
3. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 23 May, 1994
4. National Day : Thursday, 21 July, 1994
5. Assumption of Mary : Monday, 15 August, 1994
6. French Community Holiday : Tuesday, 27 September, 1994
7. All Saints' Day : Tuesday, 1 November, 1994
8. Armistice Day : Friday, 11 November, 1994

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 1994
2. Labor Day : Sunday, 1 May, 1994
3. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 1994