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Algeria: Renewed Week-End Definition Debate

Source: Magharabia
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Renewed debate and furor about the definition of the week-end in Algeria, following Mittal Steel's change to Fridays and Saturdays.

There have been plans, for the last 2 years (2005-01-11), for Algeria to change its weekends from the current Thursday-Friday to the "mixed" or "semi-universal" Friday-Saturday.