Monday, September 26, 2016

UAE Hijri New Year 1438 Public Holiday

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Chairman of the UAE's Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAGHR) and Minister of Health and Prevention, Abdul Rahman bin Mohammad bin Nasser al Owais, has announced that the upcoming Hijri New Year 1438 public holiday in the UAE would be on Sunday, October 2, 2016, and that, as per current legislation, the upcoming annual Al Hijri New Year non-working public holiday for the public sector of the UAE would be not need to be moved to adjoin the following weekend, as was done last year. [full story]