[Nowhere Man]

I'm not so sure about how business would respond to the government changing the official Memorial Day holiday. Businesses are not forced to follow the government's practices on holidays, and they may find that they can keep peace with employees more easily by keeping the holiday on the last Monday in May. Another possibility is that some businesses will use the excuse to cancel a paid holiday, and still others will make the day a floating holiday that employees can take on either day.

True. One pet peeve of mine is when Christmas is in the middle of the week, you work at the beginning of the week, take a day off and then work at the end. I think it should stay that way though, just saying it is a pet peeve of mine.

[WFTR]

I’ve always worked at companies that gave us two days for Christmas. I would always take a day of vacation for the odd day when Christmas was in the middle of the week. That way, I could go home to see my family for Christmas.

[snugs]

In Britain we get Christmas Day and Boxing Day as public holidays and also New Year's Day. My company request us to to fill in the days between with our allocated holiday as they find it not economical to open for a day or part of day in the case of Friday as we only work up to 1.00 - 1.30pm.

So we finish on Christmas Eve about midday or the last working day before Christmas Eve and come back on the next working day after 1st January.

With my personal circumstances of having to save as much holiday for hospital visits etc with dad I rather like this as it a way of having a week off but only loosing 3 or 2 and half days of leave.