Public Holidays : Long Weekend Awaits Cameroonians

Law 73/5 of December 7, 1973 establishing the system of legal holidays in the Republic of Cameroon, Cameroonians should be expecting a long weekend which ends on Monday, December 26, 2022. 
Article 1: 3, 4 and 5 of Law No. 73/5 of December 7, 1973 establishing the system of legal holidays in the Republic of Cameroon amended as follows: article 3 (new) considered: the Ascension Day, Good Friday; The Assumption (August 15); Christmas (December 25); The end of Ramadan festival (Djouldé Soumaé), The sheep festival (Djouldé Laihadji) as religious legal holidays and celebrated as such, and other religiously inspired festivals. 
Article 4 (new) of the same decree indicates that the President of the Republic may by decree, declare a holiday if the day following a religious legal holiday, is celebrated on a Sunday or if the day before or the day after a legal holiday, when the relevant holiday is celebrated on a Friday or Tuesday. According to the law, the following day is assimilated to the holiday from the point of view of working conditions and remuneration. 
Taking into consideration that the 2022 Christmas Day is on a Sunday, a presidential decree is likely to declare Monday, December 26, 2022 a public holiday nationwide. Article five (new) of the same law reveals that the public holiday is subject to the ...