Sources: الموقع الرسمي للمديرية العامة للوظيفة العمومية (Alger) and Algeria banks holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Algerian Ministry of Labour (Ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Sécurité Sociale) has announced that Thursday, January 1, 2015, had been declared as a non-working public holiday in Algeria ("journée chômée et payée") on account of the annual Western New Year non-working public holiday in Algeria. [full story]