While one group of scholars sees that Muslims in other regions and countries are to follow the same moon sighting as long as these countries share one part of the night, another states that Muslims everywhere should abide by the lunar calendar of Saudi Arabia.
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Last week, the UAE’s Ministry of Finance announced that it will release the salaries of federal government employees on July 14.
In Oman, public and private sector workers will have six days of holidays, returning to work on July 21, according to Arabian Business. The decisions allow employers and employees to agree on work arrangements to compensate this holiday, if necessity arises. Private sector workers are not being given any official holidays off – since the Eid itself falls on the regular weekend days off. Employees whose weekly offs coincide with the mentioned holiday should be compensated, it states.
In Qatar, public employees will receive 11 days off, starting on Wednesday.
In Ghana, the National Hilal Committee (NHC) has announced that this year’s Eid ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Saturday, July 18, Citi FM reported on Monday, July 13.
However, confirmation of holidays in Kuwait and Bahrain have not yet been announced.
This means if Eid Al Fitr is officially declared on Friday then workers will have the weekend off, with work resuming as normal on Sunday, July 19.
Abu Dhabi: Eid Al Fitr holidays for UAE financial markets will begin on Thursday, Ramadan 29 (July 16), and trading will resume on Shawwal 4.
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The report did not specify when Eid is expected to begin but astronomical calculations made by the Sharjah Planetarium have predicted that Eid-Al-Fitr is likely to fall on Friday July 17.
