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. Año Nuevo : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Día de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia : Monday, 21 January, 2008
3. Día de la Independencia Nacional : Wednesday, 27 February, 2008
4. Viernes Santo : Friday, 21 March, 2008
5. Día del Trabajo : Monday, 5 May, 2008
6. Corpus Christi : Thursday, 22 May, 2008
7. Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes : Wednesday, 24 September, 2008
8. Día de la Constitución : Monday, 10 November, 2008
9. Navidad : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Día de los Santos Reyes : Sunday, 6 January, 2008
2. Día de Juan Pablo Duarte : Saturday, 26 January, 2008
3. Día de la Restauración de la República : Saturday, 16 August, 2008