The Republic Day of July 1st is no longer a public holiday following President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s assent to the Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 2019. A statement signed and issued by the Minister of Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery on Wednesday May 8th announced that President Akufo-Addo assented to the new Act on April 16th […]
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According to the calendar released by the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration, Taiwanese workers will receive 115 public holidays, including weekends in 2020. During 2020 they will enjoy five long weekends. As usual planning ahead and using your annual holiday allowance to create long weekends is an efficient way to extend the public holidays. In 2020, […]
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In the area of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja and during the year 2020, non-working days, for labour purposes, of a paid and non-recoverable nature, will be as indicated below. In addition, there will be up to two days of the year in each municipality of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, as determined […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Wednesday May 1st 2019 as a public holiday to celebrate Workers’ Day. The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Abdulrahman Dambazau, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulated Nigerian workers on their commitment and sacrifice toward building a greater Nigeria. Dambazau made the announcement […]
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The Ministry of Manpower has announced the gazetted public holidays for Singapore in 2020. According to the release, there will be 11 gazetted public holidays in Singapore next year. There will be seven long weekends in 2020, compared to only four long weekends in 2019. In 2020, four of the public holidays fall on a […]
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The Labour Day holidays in China will continue to the end of the week. In an official Central Government announcement the Labour Day holiday on May 1st 2019 has been extended with Thursday May 2nd and Friday May 3rd becoming public holidays. To compensate for the days off, people will have to work on April […]
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The private and public sectors will observe the same number of days In an unexpected move, the UAE Cabinet has approved the public holidays for the rest of 2019 and 2020. There are two notable issues from the announcement. Firstly, the private sector has been granted the same number of holidays as the public sector. […]
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The South African government has declared 8 May 2019 as a public holiday President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South African employers to observe 8 May, the day of National and Provincial elections, as a public holiday and encourage staff to use the day to exercise their right to vote.President Ramaphosa on Tuesday declared the day […]
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The Pakistan Federal government have released the list of public holidays for 2019 According to a notification issued by Pakistan Interior Ministry, there will be 14 public holidays in 2019, including Kashmir Day, Pakistan Day, Labour Day, Eidul Fitr, Eidul Azha, Independence Day, Ashura, Eid Miladun Nabi (PBUH) and Quaid-e-Azam Day. “In case of Muslim […]
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Day Off on the 6th March 2019 Law no. 10/2005, of August 10, in the wording defined by Law no. 3/2016, of May 25, establishes the days that are national holidays, the official commemorative dates and the other circumstances in which tolerance days-off may be granted. When it comes to tolerance days-off, paragraph C) of […]
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