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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2012.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 5 April, 2012
2. Good Friday : Friday, 6 April, 2012
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 9 April, 2012
4. Labour Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 2012
5. Constitution Day : Thursday, 17 May, 2012
6. Whit Monday : Monday, 28 May, 2012
7. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 2012
8. St Stephen's Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 2012
And here are the 3 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, 27 May, 2012