Johor will revert to weekend off days on Saturday and Sunday starting Jan 1, the Regent of Johor, Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim announced.
The current Friday-Saturday official weekend has been in place since 2015, but certain segments within the private sector still opted to maintain Saturday and Sunday as their rest days.
Johor had also observed Friday-Saturday weekends before 1994.
Besides Johor, three other states – Kedah, Kelantan, and Terengganu – have continued to adopt Friday and Saturday as the weekend, a convention commonly adopted by Middle Eastern countries.