Zimbabwe 2016 Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Government of Zimbabwe (Harare) and Zimbabwe bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Ministers, Ignatius Chombo, has gazetted the annual announcement of the dates for the 2016 non-working public holidays in Zimbabwe in terms of the Zimbabwe Public Holidays and Prohibition of Business Act (Chapter 10:21). [full story]

Cyprus 2016 Bank Holidays Released

Sources: Kεντρική Τράπεζα Κύπρου (Nicosia) and Cyprus bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Central Bank of Cyprus has released its annual official list of bank holidays to be observed in Cyprus for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Spain 2016 La Rioja Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Boletin Oficial De La Rioja (La Rioja) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Consejería de Industria, Innovación y Empleo of Spain's Autonomous Region of La Rioja, through its spokesperson, Begoña Martínez, has announced its annual list of regional public holidays (calendario laboral) for the upcoming calendar year 2016 in La Rioja ("días inhábiles a efectos laborales, de carácter retribuido y no recuperable, del calendario del próximo año"). [full story]

Palau Public Holiday September 7

Sources: Palau Government (Koror) and Palau bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Palau has announced that Monday, September 7, 2015, would be the date of the upcoming Labor Day annual non-working public holiday in Palau. [full story]

Niue Public Holidays October 19-20

Sources: Niue Government (Alofi) and Niue bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Niue has announced non-working public holidays in Niue, on Monday and Tuesday, October 19-20, 2015, on account of the Niuean "41 years of Self Governing". [full story]

Saudi Arabia National Day Public Holiday Extension Ruled-Out

Sources: وكالة الأنباء السعودية - واس (Riyadh) and Saudi Arabian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A spokesman for Saudi Arabia's Civil Service Ministry has announced that there would be no one-off day in lieu non-working public holiday in Saudi Arabia to compensate for the Kingdom's National Day annual non-working public holiday of September 23, as it falls within the Eid Al-Adha annual public holidays in 2015. [full story]

Uzbekistan Public Holiday August 31

Sources: O‘zA – O‘zbekiston Milliy axborot agentligi (Tashkent) and Uzbekistan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov signed the resolution "On shifting day-off in connection with the celebrations of the 24th anniversary of Uzbekistan’s Independence" which declares Monday, August 31, 2015, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Uzbekistan, in connection with the annual, September 1st, Independence Day non-working public holiday in Uzbekistan. [full story]

Fiji Votes September 7 Public Holiday

Sources: Fiji Ministry of Information (Suva) and Fiji bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Fiji's Parliament has passed the "Bill For An Act To Amend The Employment Relations Promulgation 2007" which adds an annual, September 7, Constitution Day, non-working public holiday to the list of annual non-working public holidays in Fiji, beginning in 2016. [full story]

St. Kitts and Nevis Public Holiday August 27

Sources: Office of the Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (Basseterre) and St. Kitts and Nevis bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis has announced a de facto public holiday as Government Offices will remain closed on Thursday, August 27, 2015, due to Tropical Storm Erika approaching the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. [full story]

Philippines 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Philippine Information Agency (Manila) and Philippines bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier today, Philippines President, Benigno Aquino III, signed Proclamation No. 1105, s. 2015, which lists the annual special and regular non-working public holidays in the Philippines for the calendar year 2016.. [full story]

Singapore 2015 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Singapore bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier today, Singapore's President, Tony Tan Keng Yam, on the advice of Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, dissolved Singapore's 12th Parliament, and announced that Polling Day would be on Friday, September 11, 2015, and that the date would be another one-off non-working public holiday in Singapore. [full story]

Fiji 2016 Public Holidays Extended

Sources: Fiji Ministry of Information (Suva) and Fiji bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Fiji's Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has moved the "Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2015" for urgent consideration by Parliament, with a view to enshrine another new annual non-working public holiday in Fiji, Constitution Day. [full story]

Australia 2016 ACT Public Holidays Amended

Sources: ACT Government Chief Minister and Treasury Directorate (Canberra) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Chief Minister's Office of Australia's Capital Territory (ACT), Andrew Barr, has announced that, beginning in 2016, it would add Easter Sunday to its annual list of the official non-working public holidays to be observed in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). [full story]

Timor Leste 40th FALINTIL Public Holiday

Sources: Komunikadu Imprensa Sekretaria Estadu Konsellu Ministru Timor-Leste (Dili) and Timor Leste bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Timor Leste has announced that it had once again decided to declare an additional day-off public sector holiday in Timor Leste on Thursday August 20, 2015, for the "celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of National Liberation of Timor-Leste" (FALINTIL). [full story]

Cayman Islands 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Cayman Islands Government Information and Services (Grand Cayman) and Cayman Islands bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Deputy Governor's Office of the Cayman Islands has released its listing of the 2016 annual non-working public holidays in the Cayman Islands, including a date to be confirmed for the public holiday for Her Majesty the Queen's birthday. [full story]

UAE 2015 Public Holidays Extended

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The UAE's President, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has given orders for a new annual non-working public holiday in the UAE to be added to the list of annual non-working public holidays in the UAE on November 30th, to commemorate "Martyr's Day". [full story]

Spain 2016 Cantabria Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Consejería de Economía y Hacienda del Gobierno de Cantabria (Santander) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Consejería de Economía y Hacienda del Gobierno de Cantabria has gazetted its annual list of 2016 annual non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in Spain's Autonomous Region of Cantabria. [full story]

Australian Victoria Confirms New Public Holidays

Sources: State Government of Victoria (Melbourne) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Small Business Minister of the Government of Australia's State of Victoria, Philip Dalidakis, has announced that the expected declaration of 2 new annual public holidays in Australia's State of Victoria (on the day of the AFL Grand Final parade, and on Easter Sunday), would officially be announced in the government gazette this week for 2015 and beyond. [full story]

Jersey 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: States of Jersey (Saint Helier) and Jersey bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The States of Jersey (the government of Jersey) have released the annual list of official Jersey non-working public holidays for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Iranian Initial 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وب سایت رسمی مجلس ایران (Majlis) and Iran public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis), has officially announced the annual official list of non-working public holidays in Iran for the first half of the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Kazakhstan Constitution Day 2015 Public Holidays

Sources: Қазақстан Республикасының Электрондық үкіметі (Astana) and Kazakhstan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Kazakhstan's government has announced that the upcoming Constitution Day annual non-working public holidays of Kazakhstan would run for 3 days, from Saturday, August 29, until Monday, August 31, 2015, inclusively. [full story]

Moldova Public Holidays August 27-28

Sources: Agentia Informationala de Stat (Moldpres) and Moldovan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Moldova has confirmed the declaration of Friday, August 28, 2015, as a one-off bridge non-working public holiday in Moldova, on account of the upcoming Independence Day annual non-working public holiday of Moldova. [full story]

Honduras October Public Holidays Amended

Sources: La Prensa (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Late last night, Honduras' legislative assembly, approved the bill which amends last year's "Decreto Legislativo No. 75-2014 del 29 de septiembre" and moves the 3 annual October public holidays of Honduras from the last week of October to the beginning of October. [full story]

Swaziland Umhlanga/Reed Dance 2015 Public Holiday

Sources: Government of Swaziland Ministry of Home Affairs (Mbabane) and Swaziland bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Swaziland's Indvuna Yembali Nonduduzo Zubuko has announced the date when the upcoming non-working public holiday in Swaziland for the 2015 Umhlanga (aka. Reed Dance) would be observed. [full story]

Costa Rica Mother's Day 2015 Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social de Costa Rica (San José) and Costa Rican bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Costa Rica's Minister of Labour has once again confirmed that the upcoming August 15 non-working public holiday for Mother's Day (Día de la Madre) was an official non-working public holiday, as per the amended public holidays legislation of Costa Rica and that its observance would not and could not be moved to another date. [full story]

Pakistan Independence Day 2015 Bank Holiday

Sources: The State Bank of Pakistan (Karachi) and Pakistani bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has announced that the State Bank of Pakistan and the commercial banks of Pakistan would remain closed on Friday, August 14, 2015, which would be marked as a bank holiday throughout Pakistan on the occasion of the upcoming annual Independence Day bank holiday and non-working public holiday of Pakistan. [full story]

Chad August 12 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: Agence Tchadienne de Presse (N’Djamena) and Chad bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Chad's Ministre de la Fonction Publique et du Travail has issued a communiqué declaring Tuesday, August 11, 2015, as the date of the 55ème anniversaire de l’Indépendance, and a nationwide non-working public holiday in Chad ("déclarée fériée, chômée et payée sur l’ensemble du territoire nationale"), but has stressed that Wednesday, August 12, 2015, would not be an additional non-working public holiday in Chad ("La journée du 12 août est déclarée ouvrable"). [full story]

USA Election Day Public Holiday Update

Sources: US News and World Report (Washington DC) and USA bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). US populist presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, has in turn called for election day to be a non-working public holiday in the USA. [full story]

Spain 2016 Extremadura Public Holidays

Sources: Diario Oficial de Extremadura (DOE) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Consejo de Gobierno de la Junta de Extremadura of Spain's Autonomous Region of Extremadura has published its annual list of regional public holidays (calendario laboral) for the calendar year 2016 in Extremadura. [full story]

Spain 2016 Canaries Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Diario de Avisos (Santa Cruz De Tenerife) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Consejo de Gobierno of the regional government of Spain's autonomous region of las Islas Canarias, has announced its official annual list of 2016 regional non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in the Canaries Islands. [full story]

Honduras October Public Holidays Changes Update

Sources: La Prensa (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A bill has been introduced, into Honduras' legislative assembly, which would amend last year's "Decreto Legislativo No. 75-2014 del 29 de septiembre" and, as recently proposed, move the 3 annual October public holidays of Honduras from the last week of October to the beginning of October. [full story]

Egyptian Public Holiday August 6

Sources: Egypt State Information Service (Cairo) and Egyptian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Egyptian Cabinet spokesperson, Hossam El-Qaweish , has announced that the Egyptian cabinet had declared Thursday, August 6, 2015, as another one-off non-working public holiday in Egypt on account of the upcoming inauguration of the new Suez Canal. [full story]

South Korean August 14-15 Public Holidays Approved

Sources: Yonhap News Agency (Seoul) and South Korea bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The South Korean government, at its cabinet meeting of earlier today, approved the previously-discussed declaration of Friday, August 14, 2015, the day before the annual National Liberation Day non-working public holiday of South Korea, as a one-off ("temporary") non-working public holiday in South Korea, due to the annual Liberation Day non-working public holiday falling on a Saturday in 2015, the 70th anniversary of South Korea's liberation. [full story]

Cocos (Keeling) Islands 2016 Public Holidays

Sources: Office of the Administrator (Indian Ocean Territories) and Cocos (Keeling) Islands bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Administrator of Australia's Indian Ocean Territories, Barry Haase, has signed "Community Bulletin A39/2015 and Gazette 04-2015 for Cocos (Keeling) Islands" which officially gazettes the annual bank holidays and public holidays in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Christmas Island 2016 Public Holidays

Sources: Office of the Administrator (Indian Ocean Territories) and Christmas Island bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Administrator of Australia's Indian Ocean Territories, Barry Haase, has signed the "Community Bulletin A38/2015 and Gazette 03-2015 for Christmas Island" which officially gazettes the annual bank holidays and public holidays on Christmas Island for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Kuwaiti 2015 Eid Al-Adha Public Holidays

Sources: الكويت جنة الخدمة المدنية (Kuwait City) and Kuwaiti bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission has proposed to the Kuwaiti Council of Ministers that the dates of the upcoming Eid Al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) non-working public holidays in Kuwait should run, this year, again, for 5 days, unless later amended as has happened in the past. [full story]

South Korea Mulls August 14-15 Public Holidays

Sources: Yonhap News Agency (Seoul) and South Korea bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier today, an official for the South Korean government cabinet announced that the South Korean government was considering declaring Friday, August 14, 2015, the day before the annual National Liberation Day non-working public holiday of South Korea, as a one-off ("temporary") non-working public holiday in South Korea, due to the annual Liberation Day non-working public holiday falling on a Saturday in 2015, the 70th anniversary of South Korea's liberation. [full story]

El Salvador Clarifies August 2015 Public Holidays

Sources: Asamblea Legislativa de la República de El Salvador (San Salvador) and El Salvador bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labour and Social security of the Government of El Salvador has clarified the scope and dates of the upcoming August 2015 non-working public holiday in El Salvador on account of the annual "Celebración del Divino Salvador del Mundo" nationwide non-working public holiday of El Salvador, and of the municipal "Fiestas Patronales". [full story]