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		<title>Is Eid&#8217;l Adha a Regular National Holiday?</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eid'l Adha]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The month of November contains 3 national holidays, with 2 long weekends. The first long weekend is All Saints&#8217; Day in November 1 and the additional special non-working holiday in November 2 declared by the President under Proclamation 1699. That&#8217;s from October 31 to November 2 (Saturday to Monday). The second long weekend is from November 27 to November 30 (Friday to Monday), with the Eid’l Adha and the Bonifacio Day lumped together. Great news for those who love vacations, but this is not the point of this post. Let&#8217;s backtrack a bit. The  national holidays are contained in Republic Act No. 9492, which law incidentally adds one more regular national holiday from the usual 10. The law itself makes a distinction between regular holidays and special non-working holidays. There are legal distinctions between the two types of holidays. These distinctions should be discussed in future posts. The previous Proclamations issued by Malacanang declaring certain days as holidays, explicitly designates that day as special non-working  holiday (or, sometimes, special working holiday). The Presidential issuance covering Eid&#8217;l Adha, Proclamation 1808, pertinently provides: NOW THEREFORE I, GLORIA M. ARROYO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by [...]]]></description>
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