Posted on 06/18/2021 6:48:43 AM PDT by george76
Biden signed legislation giving millions of federal employees Friday off to celebrate Saturday’s new federal holiday, Juneteenth.
This makes 44 paid days off for the average federal employee annually, which is nearly nine full weeks of paid-time off each year.
Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The Civil War was America’s bloodiest war, with between 752,000 and 861,000 soldiers dying on the battlefield. 49 states have already recognized Juneteenth as a holiday (South Dakota is the only holdout), though only a handful give it as a paid holiday to state employees.
On Wednesday, the U.S. House passed the bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, after the U.S. Senate passed it the day before.
Signing it into law on Thursday, Biden made Juneteenth – observed this year on Friday, June 18 — a federal holiday for which “most” federal employees will have off.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management tweeted Thursday that in observance of the federal holiday, “most federal employees will observe the holiday tomorrow, June 18”— since the 19th falls on Saturday this year.
There are about 2.1 million civilian federal employees, another 1.3 million active-duty military personnel, and more than 500,000 postal service employees.
Before Thursday, federal employees received pay for 10 federal holidays, 13 sick days and 20 vacation days per year on average. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com estimate these benefits cost taxpayers $22.6 billion annually.
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Last year, one million federal bureaucrats were paid $1.1 billion in performance bonuses. In 78 of the largest federal agencies, the average salary is $100,000 or more.
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Like one a week? Damn.
They ought to handle this like King’s holiday . . . give workers a choice of which day they want to take. I would not want to honor teenth or King’s day.
I hate to bring it up....but shouldn’t Cinco de Maya also be on the list?
Dayum. I needs to get me a gubmint job.
“...10 federal holidays, 13 sick days and 20 vacation days per year on average.”
We’re catching up to socialist Denmark, the happiest country!
(Well, they may say they’re happy, but they have higher rates of alcoholism, suicide and beastiality.)
Well, one way of looking at this is they have less time for corruption on the job.........................
321 more shootings of ‘innocent’ blacks and they can have a whole year off.
The new black holiday replaces Father’s Day.
I like Columbus Day. Especially now that liberals think it glorifies raping, enslaving and killing indigenous people.
Sure, cinco de maya is another communist holiday . . . when do we start celebrating Marx, Stalin and Lenin’s birthdays as well?
I need to call my IRS liaison today.
Nope. Can’t. IRS is closed.
We had no prior notice from the service that today would be observed as a federal holiday. Well, maybe 24 hours.
And Juneteenth is June 19 here in Texas.
Wonder if all the courts closed on one days notice ...
It is also Moe Howard’s birthday. Happy Birthday Moe.
Solid point, country even more messed up if they worked those 44 days. Kinda reminds me of when conservative talkers complained that Obama wasn’t working enough.
The #1 problem I have with it is no one gives Christians the credit for the abolitionist movement.
Wait a minute! We do celebrate Stalin’s birthday - on Earth Day. The day that true Americans will leave every light in the house on.
Are they celebrating the Christian white men who made this happen, or is this another day to loot and break things?
I’d prefer federal employees get 365 days of paid vacations and holidays. They’d be far less injurious to the public that way.
Close to 9 work weeks!!!
Just think...state residents have to pay for THEIR state government employees’ time off AND federal employees’ time off. Plus they pay for whatever training state and federal employees get sent off to every year, which is usually quite often because so many of them don’t have the skills to do their jobs.
Big government is strangling us. Its good to be an elite.
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