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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Tunisia

The list of Tunisia bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2008, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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23 Oct 2006 All financial institutions will be closed from October 23 to October 24, 2006, inclusive. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Tunisia public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Tunisia, and their dates, are regulated by the Tunisian Labour Code's (Code du travail tunisien, Loi no 66-27 du 30 avril 1966) articles 445, subsequently modified many times, for example by law 88-55 (1988) and 91-15 (1991) and Article 1 of law 96-62 (loi n° 96-62 du 15 juillet 1996) which specified that henceforth public holidays would be set forth by official decrees (ie. not by passing a law) or by each branch's collective bargaining agreement. • Accord Cadre: By default, if no specific collective agreement exists then the default (cadre) agreement applies which lists the following as paid non-working days in Article 445 of the Labour Code: March 20, May 1st, July 25, November 7, Rabi al-Awal 12, Shawwal 1-2, Zul-Hija 10-11. The unpaid non-working days are: March 21, April 9, and August 13. According to the Tunisian Ministère du Développement et de la Coopération Internationale, January 1st, although not mentioned in article 445 of the Labour Code, is in fact a paid non-working day. • Weekends are Saturdays and Sundays (private communication). • Other Sources of Information For information not covered here, see the following specialized websites: Central Bank of Tunisia (Tunisia central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (maps, demographic and economic statistics), Copp Clark (financial markets' trading hours, settlement holidays and currency non-clearing days), and the IFES Election Guide (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and past voter participation).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Tunisia, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Tunisia, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Tunisia. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Tunisia that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Tunisia were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2008 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Tunisia, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Tunisia, before planning any trip to Tunisia. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.