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.
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 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.
The #1 problem I have with it is no one gives Christians the credit for the abolitionist movement.
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.
Sick days seem excessive, but other than that, vacation time is on par with most experienced folks in the private sector
4 weeks vacation, 10 federal and 13 sick.
This makes it 11 Federal.
If they get 4 weeks out of the gate that’s excessive, but most professional gigs 4 weeks is fairly standard if experienced and into your career and not brand new to the work force... the 13 sick days is way above normal... Usually 5 or so in my experience in the private sector.
50 paid days off a year.
26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, and now 11 federal holidays...
And I suppose most state workers will follow suit and give a paid day. My neighbor has a state government job, and I swear he is off half the time.
Wouldn't it make sense to just celebrate the event on June 19th? And then if that day was a Saturday it would not cost the taxpayers anything.
But the real reason behind the holiday isn't to celebrate the event, it is to give a paid day off to government employees.
By my calculation every single weekday will be a Federal holiday by 2040 due to the Pantheon of leftist idols.
That will take care of the Hispanics (2 holidays, have to equal the blacks), Asians (2 holidays), Native Americans (2 holidays), non native American Indians (2 holidays), Pakistanis (2 holidays), Phillipinos (2 holidays), Muslims (2 holidays) Gays (2 holidays), Women (2 holidays), Transvestites (2 holidays), Questioning folks (2 holidays), Robot/human non gender hybrids (2 holidays), Child Molesters (2 holidays), and a bunch more to be named later (including new names of new groups that don’t exist yet).
Wikipedia shows 11 including Junteenth.