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Mauritius - Public Holidays

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.

Mauritius - Public Holidays

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