How many working days in year 2001?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2001 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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2001.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Nieuwjaarsdag : Monday, 1 January, 2001
2. Paasmaandag : Monday, 16 April, 2001
3. Dag van de Arbeid : Tuesday, 1 May, 2001
4. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 24 May, 2001
5. Pinkstermaandag : Monday, 4 June, 2001
6. Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart : Wednesday, 15 August, 2001
7. Allerheiligen : Thursday, 1 November, 2001
8. Kerstmis : Tuesday, 25 December, 2001
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Nationale Feestdag : Saturday, 21 July, 2001
2. Wapenstilstand : Sunday, 11 November, 2001