Employees questioned the date of the Islamic New Year holiday, whether Saturday or Sunday, explaining that some are reporting conflicting news about the date of the holiday, which confuses families, especially employees and families with students in different stages of education.
Private schools sent letters to parents requesting them that next Sunday is a holiday on the occasion of the Islamic New Year, while the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, confirmed that no date has been set corresponding to the Gregorian date so far.
In detail, a government employee, Salma Mohammed said: «It is necessary to schedule the holidays well in advance, because the day of holiday depends on many things life, including travel to another emirate to visit parents, and so on».
The employee, Mariam El Yassi, demanded that Sunday be a public holiday, even if the first day of Muharram (Hijri New Year) falls on Saturday, because in this case falls on a weekly holiday, and deporting it to Sunday is to support the employees.
On the other hand, parents told students at a private school, Emirates Today, that their children's school, notified them in an e-mail, that Sunday, the first of September next, is a holiday, on the occasion of the Islamic New Year, and it will start the school year Monday (2nd of September) instead of Sunday, the first of the same month, and scheduled to start the academic year (2020/2019), according to the school calendar approved for the same year.
The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, in a circular, announced that the Islamic New Year 1441 leave in the Federal Government of the UAE, on the first day of the month of Muharram, and corresponding to the Gregorian date.
The Commission confirmed that it has not been determined so far if the first of the Muharram approved on Saturday or Sunday next, which will be determined by the competent authorities tomorrow Friday.
The Council of Ministers adopted a decision to determine public holidays in the government sector for 2019-2020, and grant the private sector similar public holidays, a total of 14 days a public holiday annually.
This year's holidays for the public and private sectors, as stipulated in the resolution, include: Eid al-Fitr holiday on 29 Ramadan to the third of Shawwaal, and Arafa pause on the ninth of Dhul-Hijjah, Eid al-Adha holiday from 10 to 12 of Dhu al-Hijjah, and the Islamic New Year holiday on the first day The 14th of Muharram, the holiday of the martyr on the first of December, and the National Day holiday on the second and third of December next.
- Hijri New Year holiday is dependent on seeing
The crescent of the month of Muharram.