How many working days in year 2011?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2011 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2011.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Purim : Sunday, 20 March, 2011
2. Pesach : Tuesday, 19 April, 2011
3. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Monday, 25 April, 2011
4. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Tuesday, 10 May, 2011
5. Shavuot : Wednesday, 8 June, 2011
6. Rosh Hashanah : Thursday, 29 September, 2011
7. Sukkot : Thursday, 13 October, 2011
8. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Thursday, 20 October, 2011
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Rosh Hashanah : Friday, 30 September, 2011
2. Yom Kippur : Saturday, 8 October, 2011