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Are There Too Many Public Holidays in Ghana?
A small country like Ghana has as many as 13 public holidays for the year as at now. Thus, mathematically speaking, the country has an average of 1.083 public holidays a month. This means that we celebrate at least one holiday per month. If a public holiday falls on Saturday or Sunday, which are officially non-working days.
| Date | Holiday Name |
| 1 Jan 2022, Saturday | New Year's Day |
| 3 Jan 2022, Monday | New Year's Day observed |
| 7 Jan 2022, Friday | Constitution Day |
| 6 Mar 2022, Sunday | Independence Day |
| 7 Mar 2022, Monday | Independence Day |
| 15 Apr 2022, Friday | Good Friday |
| 18 Apr 2022, Monday | Easter Monday |
| 1 May 2022, Sunday | May Day |
| 2 May 2022, Monday | May Day observed |
| 3 May 2022, Tuesday | ld ul Fits |
| 10 Jul 2022, Sunday | Eid al-Adha |
| 4 Aug 2022, Thursday | Founder’s Day |
| 21 Sep 2022, Wednesday | Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day |
| 2 Dec 2022, Friday | Farmer’s Day |
| 25 Dec 2022, Sunday | Christmas Day |
| 26 Dec 2022, Monday | Christmas Day observed |
| 26 Dec 2022, Monday | Boxing Day |
The white man who brought up this idea of holidays has 9 elective/ major holidays and we who I will say following their footsteps have how many lol do we want out country to be productive or what they government need to resent it please
REPLYI leave in Norway which is very rich but we don't have so many holidays. The few holidays we have, if they happen to be weekends then there be no holiday at all, instead of moving the holiday to manday. We are poor so we should have less holidays.
REPLYToo many holidays discourages investors. It also cripples the economy. Think about it. A private will have to bear the cost of a days labour cost when its workers stay home because of a holiday. It is payment by companies for non-productive period. This is a bitter peal for investors.
REPLYNo wonder they want e-levy to pay. The companies they want to invest in the country don't enjoy so many holidays
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COMMENTS (12)
It's getting annoyed with all these unnecessary public holidays in Ghana.
REPLY 1 ReplySome of these holidays should not be applicable to the private sector.
Why should the state give all these unnecessary holidays to private sector employees, and they end up with the cost of those unproductive days?
The Private sector should decide on some of these holidays whether they're applicable to their employees.
These old folks are out of touch of how the modern world works.
Even moving holidays from weekends to weekdays make absolutely no sense.
ONLY LAZY FOLKS WILL SUPPORT THIS rubb**h