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. Easter Monday : Monday, 17 April, 2006
2. Labor Day : Monday, 1 May, 2006
3. Ascension Day : Thursday, 25 May, 2006
4. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 5 June, 2006
5. National Day : Friday, 21 July, 2006
6. Assumption of Mary : Tuesday, 15 August, 2006
7. French Community Holiday : Wednesday, 27 September, 2006
8. All Saints' Day : Wednesday, 1 November, 2006
9. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2006
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2006
2. Armistice Day : Saturday, 11 November, 2006