How many working days in year 2009?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2009 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 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 2009.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 2009
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 13 April, 2009
3. Labor Day : Friday, 1 May, 2009
4. Iris Day : Friday, 8 May, 2009
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 21 May, 2009
6. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 1 June, 2009
7. National Day : Tuesday, 21 July, 2009
8. Armistice Day : Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
9. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 2009
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Assumption of Mary : Saturday, 15 August, 2009
2. All Saints' Day : Sunday, 1 November, 2009