New Year's Day will be a public holiday for UAE's private sector, the Ministry of Labour confirmed on Thursday in a Tweet carried by WAM, the state news agency.
الإثنين .. الأول من يناير عطلة رأس السنة الميلادية للقطاع الخاص.https://t.co/OsOF0XXAhg#وام
— وكالة أنباء الإمارات (@wamnews) December 14, 2017
Earlier this week, the Federal Authority for Human Resources announced two days holiday for public and government workers.
Government offices would be closed on Sunday, December 31 and would reopen on Tuesday, January 2.
The next public holiday on the UAE calendar is Israa wal Miraj, expected on April 13, 2018.
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