How many working days in year 2001?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2001 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2001.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 2001
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 12 April, 2001
3. Good Friday : Friday, 13 April, 2001
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 16 April, 2001
5. General Prayer Day : Friday, 11 May, 2001
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 24 May, 2001
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 4 June, 2001
8. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 2001
9. Boxing Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 2001
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 15 April, 2001
2. Pentecost : Sunday, 3 June, 2001