{"id":166365,"date":"2017-04-01T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=166365"},"modified":"2017-03-31T18:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T16:51:24","slug":"the-days-you-need-to-take-off-to-maximise-your-leave-in-april-and-the-rest-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/166365\/the-days-you-need-to-take-off-to-maximise-your-leave-in-april-and-the-rest-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The days you need to take off to maximise your leave in April and the rest of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The roads and offices were notably quiet this past week as businesses around the country took full example of an extended weekend due to Heritage Day (21 March) falling on a Tuesday this year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite just coming back from a shortened week, workers can already look forward to a drastically reduced April with three public holidays falling in or around the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This has been compounded by a greater than usual overlap of public and private school holidays meaning the whole family is likely to find time off during this time period.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind BusinessTech looked at the remaining public holidays in 2017 and the best days to take off in order to maximise your leave time off.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>School Terms\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>* All 9 Provinces have the same School Calendar in 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Term 1: <\/strong>11 January &#8211; 31 March<\/li>\n<li><strong>Term 2: <\/strong>18 April &#8211; 30 June<\/li>\n<li><strong>Term 3: <\/strong>24 July &#8211; 29 September<\/li>\n<li><strong>Term 4: <\/strong>9 October &#8211; 6 December<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Full list of public holidays<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"9%\">Day<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"8%\">Date<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"10%\">Public Holiday<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"64%\">Comments\/Tips<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"9%\">Potential days off<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sunday<\/td>\n<td>01 January<\/td>\n<td>New Years Day<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Monday<\/td>\n<td>02 January<\/td>\n<td>Public Holiday<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tuesday<\/td>\n<td>21 March<\/td>\n<td>Human Rights Day<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Friday<\/td>\n<td>14 April<\/td>\n<td>Good Friday<\/td>\n<td>By taking leave on\u00a013 April (Thursday) and 18 April (Tuesday).<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Monday<\/td>\n<td>17 April<\/td>\n<td>Family Day<\/td>\n<td>By taking leave on\u00a013 April (Thursday) and 18 April (Tuesday).<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Thursday<\/td>\n<td>27 April<\/td>\n<td>Freedom Day<\/td>\n<td>By taking leave on 26 April (Wednesday), 28 April (Friday), and 2 May (Tuesday).<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Monday<\/td>\n<td>01 May<\/td>\n<td>Workers Day<\/td>\n<td>By taking leave on 26 April (Wednesday), 28 April (Friday), and 2 May (Tuesday).<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Friday<\/td>\n<td>16 June<\/td>\n<td>Youth Day<\/td>\n<td>By Taking Monday\/Thursday (15 June\/19 June) as a long weekend.<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wednesday<\/td>\n<td>09 August<\/td>\n<td>National Women&#8217;s Day<\/td>\n<td>By taking 7 and 8 August (Monday and Tuesday)\/ 10 and 11 August (Thursday and Friday) &#8211; or both if your boss is lenient.<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sunday<\/td>\n<td>24 September<\/td>\n<td>Heritage Day<\/td>\n<td>By taking leave on 26 September (Tuesday) or 22 September (Friday).<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Monday<\/td>\n<td>25 September<\/td>\n<td>Public Holiday<\/td>\n<td>By taking leave on 26 September (Tuesday) or 22 September (Friday).<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Saturday<\/td>\n<td>16 December<\/td>\n<td>Day of Reconciliation<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>&#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Monday<\/td>\n<td>25 December<\/td>\n<td>Christmas Day<\/td>\n<td>By taking leave on the 27th, 28th, 29th (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tuesday<\/td>\n<td>26 December<\/td>\n<td>Day of Good Will<\/td>\n<td>By taking leave on the 27th, 28th, 29th (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/151523\/why-abusing-your-sick-leave-is-a-terrible-idea-and-what-you-should-do-instead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why abusing your sick leave is a terrible idea \u2013 and what you should do instead<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessTech looked at the remaining public holidays in 2017 and the best days to take off in order to maximise your leave time off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":166377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-166365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167773,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166365\/revisions\/167773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}