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Business Practices in Madagascar

Opening hours and bank holidays

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Opening Hours and Days: The typical business hours in Madagascar are from 8:30am to 5pm. Monday to Friday, with a lunch break between noon and 1pm. Most offices work from 9am to noon on Saturdays.
Banks generally work from 8am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.

Public Holidays

New Year's Day	Janurary 1st
Women's Day	March 8th
Commemoration of the Anti-Colonial Revolt of 1947	March 29
Easter Sunday-Easter Monday	April 21st-22nd
Labor Day	May 1st
Africa's Day Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.)	May 25
Ascension Day	May 30
Whit Monday	50 days after Easter
Id al Fitr	June 4
Independence Day	June 26
Id al Adha	August 11
Ascension Day	August 15
All Saint's Day	November 1st
Christmas Day	December 25

Holiday Compensation: The law does not provide for a compensation day in case a holiday falls on a non-working day.
If a person has to work during a holiday, he/she is generally entitled to 150% of the normal pay (140% in case of weekly day off).

Periods When Companies Usually Close

Christmas/End of the year holidays	from December 25 to the beginning of January
Closure for Easter	end of March/Early April

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