Sources: Agence France Presse and France public holidays. Earlier today, France's Labour Minister, Xavier Bertrand, confirmed that Le lundi de Pentecôte (Whit Monday) will be restored as a fully national public holiday in France, starting this year, in 2008. The change will apply as well to all DOM-TOMs (French overseas territories and administrative regions). The Whit Monday public holiday had been cancelled from 2005 to 2007 (see our background post on the subject).In addition, due to the extremely early date of Easter in 2008, Whit Monday, on May 12, will follow the Thursday, May 8, public holiday, meaning that one can expect many, if not most, offices to be deserted on Friday, May 9, 2008, as French white-collar workers enjoy one of their beloved ponts (bridge holiday).
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