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How many working days in year 1980?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1980 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1980.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Capodanno : Tuesday, 1 January, 1980
2. Lunedì di Pasqua : Monday, 7 April, 1980
3. Anniversario Liberazione : Friday, 25 April, 1980
4. Festa del lavoro : Thursday, 1 May, 1980
5. Festa della Repubblica Italia : Monday, 2 June, 1980
6. Ferragosto o Assunzione : Friday, 15 August, 1980
7. Immacolata Concezione : Monday, 8 December, 1980
8. Santo Natale : Thursday, 25 December, 1980
9. Santo Stefano : Friday, 26 December, 1980

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Epifania : Sunday, 6 January, 1980
2. Ognissanti o Tutti i Santi : Saturday, 1 November, 1980