How many working days in year 2008?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2008 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.
Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2008.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Jour de l'An : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Lundi de Pâques : Monday, 24 March, 2008
3. Fête du Travail : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
4. Lundi de la Pentecôte : Monday, 12 May, 2008
5. Jour de la fête Dieu : Thursday, 22 May, 2008
6. Fête de l'Assomption : Friday, 15 August, 2008
7. Fête Nationale : Wednesday, 19 November, 2008
8. Fête de l'Immaculée Conception : Monday, 8 December, 2008
9. Jour de Noël : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Jour de la Sainte Dévote : Sunday, 27 January, 2008
2. Fête de la Toussaint : Saturday, 1 November, 2008