Hours :
Time zone: G.M.T.+1
Working hours: 8.00 am to 4.30 pm. Banks close at 3.00 pm, public services still open until 6.00 pm.
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Working days :
- From Sunday to Thursday for public and/or private economic administrations and establishments. (Some administrations ensure permanence on Thursday).
- From Sunday to Thursday for banks, insurance companies, financial establishments and some private economic establishments.
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legal holidays :
• National holiday
Day of Independence 05 of July
Day of National Liberation war starting 1rst of November
• Civil holiday
Labour day (1st of May)
New year day (1st of January)
• Religious holiday
Religious holiday are fixed following the lunar hegirian calendar of Islam, which gains’ each year, ten days with regard to Gregorian calendar.
- Aîd el Fitr (the breaking off of fast of the Ramandân): two days holiday
- Aîd el adha (sacrifice holiday, two months and ten years after Aîd el Fitr): two days holiday
- Awwal Mouharem (Muslim new year): one day holiday
- Achoura, 10th day of Moharem : one day holiday
- El Mawlid en-Nabaoui, or “Mouloud”12th day of lunar month Rabie El Awwel (birthday of the prophet Mohammed, peace and salvation on him) : one day holiday.
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