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PUBLIC HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS Public holidays for religious and state occasions threatened to overwhelm working life in Mauritius, multiplying until there were 28 official days off work a year, in addition to weekends. Now the number of statutory public holidays has been reduced to 15. These are as follows:

New Year’s Day 1 January

New Year 2 January

Chinese Spring Festival variable (January/February)

Thaipoosam Cavadee variable (January/February)

Abolition of Slavery 1 February

Maha Shivaratree variable (February/March)

National Day 12 March

Ougadi variable (March/April)

Labour Day 1 May

Assumption 15 August

Ganesh Chaturthi variable (August/September)

Divali variable (October/November)

Arrival of Indentured Labourers 2 November

Id El Fitr variable (November/December)

Christmas Day 25 December

Employees are also permitted to have two additional days’ leave a year to celebrate religious festivals that are no longer official public holidays. Leave is granted at the employee’s request even if the employee doesn’t belong to the religion celebrating the festival. Some of these festivals are so popular with everyone, regardless of their religion, that they become like public holidays, with shops and businesses closed.

Since many of these festivals depend on different religious calendars, the days on which they are held vary each year and will not always be in the months shown below.

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