Employees questioned the date of the Islamic New Year holiday, whether it is Saturday or Sunday, explaining that some are reporting conflicting news about the holiday, which confuses families, especially employees and families with students in different stages of education.
At a time when private schools sent letters to parents requesting them that next Sunday on the occasion of the Islamic New Year, the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources confirmed that no date has been set according to the date of Gregorian date.
In detail, a government employee, Salma Mohammed, said: "It is necessary to challenge the dates of the holidays well in advance, because this determination depends on many things of life, including travel to another emirate to visit parents, and so on."
And demanded the employee, Maryam Yasi Sunday as a public holiday, even if the first psoriasis of Muharram (New Year Hijri) on Saturday, because in this case falls on a weekly holiday, and deportation to Sunday is in support of the staff.
On the other hand, parents told students at a private school, "Emirates Today" that the school of their children, notified them in an e-mail, that Sunday, the first of September next, is a holiday, on the occasion of the Islamic New Year, adding in the letter, The academic year will start on Monday (the second of September) instead of on the first Sunday 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 UAE federal government, 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 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 the holiday of Arafa on the ninth of Dhu al-Hijjah, Eid al-Adha holiday from 10 to 12 Dhu al-Hijjah, and the Islamic New Year holiday on the first of Muharram 1441, the Martyr's Day holiday on the first of December, and the National Day holiday on the second and third of December next.