Cabinet approves 22 public holidays in 2022; six fall on weekends

Six out of 22 public holidays will fall on weekends next year.

In 2022, there will be 14 general holidays and three of them coincided with weekends, said Khandker Anwarul Islam, cabinet secretary, at a briefing at the Secretariat today.

Among the other eight government executive order holidays, there are three weekly holidays.

Government employees can enjoy three days of optional holiday on the occasion of religious festivals.

Similarly, on the occasion of major social festivals, employees from various small ethnic groups working in and outside the Chattogram Hill Tracts have the option of taking two days off.