Australian Victoria 2016 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: State Government of Victoria (Melbourne) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Small Business Minister of the State Government of Australia's State of Victoria, Philip Dalidakis, has officially announced a revision to the list of official non-working public holidays in Australia's State of Victoria for the calendar year 2016, with the re-inclusion of Christmas Day as a non-working public holiday in Australia's State of Victoria for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

India Telangana 2017 Public Holidays Released

Sources: Government of Telangana (Hyderabad) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's State of Telangana has released the "Telangana GO List of General Holidays, Optional Holidays for the year 2017" which officially lists the annual non-working public holidays to be observed in the Indian State of Telangana for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Cuban 2016 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) and Cuban bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Cuban government has issued the "Resolución No 23/2016 del Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social" which declares Friday, December 2, 2016, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Cuba, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Granma. [full story]

India 2017 Kerala Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Government of Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's state of Kerala has announced its annual list of the days which will be non-working public holidays in India's state of Kerala for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Indian 2017 Himachal Pradesh Public Holidays Announced

Sources: The official webportal of the Himachal Pradesh Government (Shimla) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of the Indian State of Himachal Pradesh has issued a notification of public holidays and restricted holidays to be observed in the State of Himachal Pradesh as gazetted holidays during the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Gibraltar 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Government of Gibraltar Press Office (Gibraltar) and Gibraltar bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Gibraltar has issued the "BANK AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ORDER 2016" (LN. 2016/217) which specifies the official list of annual Gibraltar bank holidays and non-working public holidays in Gibraltar for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

India 2017 Tamil Nadu Public Holidays Released

Sources: Government of Tamil Nadu (Chennai) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's state of Tamil Nadu has announced its annual list of the days which will be non-working public holidays in India's state of Tamil Nadu for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

India 2017 Puducherry Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Government of Puducherry (Saram) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of India's State of Puducherry has announced the list of official state non-working public holidays in India's State of Puducherry for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Australian 2019 Public Holidays In Tasmania

Sources: Tasmanian Government Media Releases (Hobart) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Workplace Standards Tasmania of Australia's State of Tasmania, has released its annual list of official 2018 non-working public holidays in the Australian State of Tasmania and bank holidays in Tasmania for the calendar year 2019. [full story]

Ecuador Mulls Public Holidays Legislative Changes

Sources: Agencia de Noticias del Ecuador y Sudamérica (ANDES) and Ecuador bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). During his weekly address to the nation of yesterday (Enlace Ciudadano 496), Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa, announced that he had sent a bill to the Ecuadorean Asamblea Nacional to declare as a day in lieu non-working public holiday in Ecuador, the Friday before, or the Monday after, an annual non-working public holiday of Ecuador which falls on the weekend. [full story]

Saba 2017 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Openbaar Lichaam Bonaire (Kralendijk) and Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba (the regional government of Saba) has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Saba, which should also apply as non-working public holidays to all of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba, for the calendar year 2017. [full story]

Indian Assam Public Holiday October 17

Sources: Daily News and Analysis (Guwahati) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Chief Minister of the Government of India's state of Assam, Sarbananda Sonowal, has declared a non-working government public holiday in India's state of Assam on Monday, October 17, 2016, on the occasion of Kati Bihu, "so that everyone can unequivocally take part into the observation of Kati Bihu rituals". [full story]

Israel 2017 Bank Holidays and Public Holidays Announced

Sources: The Bank of Israel (BOI) and Israel public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Bank of Israel has released the official list of the days in 2017 which will be observed as bank and public holidays in Israel, as part of its annual announcement of the "List of days in 2017 apart from Saturdays, which will be observed as Bank and Public Holidays in Israel". [full story]

Spain 2017 National Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Following the recent gazetting of the 2017 public holidays in the last of Spain's autonomous regions (Ceuta, Melilla and Murcia), the national government of Spain has gazetted its annual list of official national non-working public holidays in Spain (calendario laboral) for the upcoming calendar year 2017. [full story]

Spain 2017 Ceuta Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Ceuta (BOCCE) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The recently-announced annual list of 2017 non-working Spanish public holidays (calendario laboral) in the Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta, as announced by the legislative assembly of Spain's autonomous region of Ceuta (Ilustre Pleno de !a Asamblea de Ceuta), has been officially gazetted in the BOCCE (Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Ceuta). [full story]

Spain 2017 Murcia Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Dirección General de Trabajode la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia (Murcia) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Spain's autonomous region of La Murcia through the Dirección General de Trabajode la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia has finally gazetted the calendar of official Spanish public holidays in Murcia (calendario laboral) for the upcoming calendar year 2017, which it had unofficially announced last spring. [full story]

Malaysian 2018 Islamic Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Bernama News Agency (Kuala Lumpur) and Malaysian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Malaysia's governmental Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia, aka. JAKIM) has published its annual Islamic calendar of public holidays in Malaysia for the western year 2018 (corresponding to 1439-1440 AH). [full story]

Bhutanese October 2016 Public Holidays

Sources: Royal Civil Service Commission of Bhutan (Thimphu) and Bhutanese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Royal Civil Service Commission of the Government of Bhutan has announced the dates of the upcoming non-working public holidays in Bhutan and in its capital, Thimphu, for the month of October 2016, due to the annual Bhutanese public holidays for Thimphu Drubchen, Thimphu Tshechu and Dassain. [full story]

Spain 2017 Melilla Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Consejo de Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla (BOME) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Consejo de Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla has released its calendario laboral, the annual official list of 2017 non-working public holidays in Spain's autonomous region of Melilla, in the Boletín Oficial de Melilla (BOME). [full story]

Canada New November 11 Public Holiday Bill

Sources: The House of Commons of Canada (Ottawa) and Canada bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Canadian House of Commons bill C-311, An Act to amend the Holidays Act (Remembrance Day), yet another bill aiming to extend the observance of the regional, November 11, Remembrance Day, non-working public holiday of Canada, this time by making it a nationwide non-working public holiday in Canada ("is a legal holiday and shall be kept and observed as such throughout Canada") and by specifying a day in lieu when November 11 falls on a weekend ("When November 11 is a Saturday or a Sunday, the following Monday is a legal holiday and shall be kept and observed as such"), got its first reading last Friday. [full story]