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ctfc	Nov 24th 2011 9:45 am

Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

According to my calendar Sunday should be a holiday but absolutely no announcements where I work and I can't see anything announced in the press either. Is it just being ignored this year?

It's on the official websites also: http://www.visitabudhabi.ae/en/plan.....holidays.aspx

Spugsy

Nov 24th 2011 9:50 am

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Originally Posted by ctfc (Post 9751718)

Same here, no day off for us - anyone??

Millhouse

Nov 24th 2011 9:56 am

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Originally Posted by Spugsy (Post 9751726)

Same here, no day off for us - anyone??

I'm off

Oyibopeppeh

Nov 24th 2011 12:03 pm

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Nothing for us either :frown:

seven seas

Nov 24th 2011 1:03 pm

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no announcement as usual

Meow	Nov 24th 2011 1:46 pm

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It's just been announced!

UAE to move the New Hijri Year's holiday for public and private sector employees to December 1 (Thursday)

They really do make it up as they go along, don't they?

Patsy Stoned

Nov 25th 2011 2:52 am

Re: Hijri New Year/ Muharram - still no announcement??

Just announced....
Christmas (25th Dec) will be moved to the 27th so that people will get a 4 day holiday ... Can you imagine the outcry if we randomly moved our religious holidays?? :D

auzdafluff

Nov 25th 2011 3:56 am

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Originally Posted by Patsy Stoned (Post 9752980)

Just announced....
Christmas (25th Dec) will be moved to the 27th so that people will get a 4 day holiday ... Can you imagine the outcry if we randomly moved our religious holidays?? :D

Is that true? :blink:

seven seas

Nov 25th 2011 5:39 am

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Originally Posted by Patsy Stoned (Post 9752980)

Just announced....
Christmas (25th Dec) will be moved to the 27th so that people will get a 4 day holiday ... Can you imagine the outcry if we randomly moved our religious holidays?? :D

Can you imagine the outcry if a holiday was given to accommodate those naive enough to believe a single mother gave birth without any horizontal mambo taking place?

Can you imagine the outcry if an extra day's holiday was announced and people whinged about how it should be on Tuesday and to hell with the 4-day holiday?

markinbahrain

Nov 25th 2011 8:51 am

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Originally Posted by Meow (Post 9752066)

It's just been announced!

UAE to move the New Hijri Year's holiday for public and private sector employees to December 1 (Thursday)

They really do make it up as they go along, don't they?

Old school BE's please explain :confused: Hijri is the New Year for Muslims, yet why is it tomorrow in Bahrain & next week in Dubai. I know they look to the sighting of the moon and crap, but my staff are off on Sunday....me not understand.

Patsy Stoned

Nov 26th 2011 5:10 am

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Originally Posted by markinbahrain (Post 9753258)

It is so that they can have some extra time off..

bobxbob

Nov 26th 2011 12:02 pm

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Here in Saudi, we don't get anytime off for the 1st of Muharram. They don't see it as a religious day. Just the two eids and national day (which we only started getting off a few years ago).

mentalist

Nov 26th 2011 1:08 pm

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Thursday 1st December...

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