Great news! Now please make voting day a national holiday.
This means all banks and some other institutions will suddenly be closed tomorrow? Or do they get a "pass" this year?
This means all banks and some other institutions will suddenly be closed tomorrow? Or do they get a "pass" this year?
If they close the stock market i get it off automatically. Hopefully next year.
It seems wild there wasn't an end-of-slavery holiday til now. Seems like the most no-brainer choice for one after Independence Day.
Looking forward to local GOP politicians throwing a hissyfit for clout. Just state legislatures trying to invoke states rights for General Lee Picnic Day or some bullshit.
It's not a replacement. The bill just adds Juneteenth to the list of federal holidays.
My brother works at cyber security firm, and they started getting the day off last year. I hope this helps accelerate the trend in the private sector, and not become something the feds get off but everyone else doesn't, like President's Day or something.
It's a federal holiday, so markets and all federal employees will be off!
I believe it is in addition and there are now 11 Federal holidays, bill reads:
Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to Memorial Day the following:
" Juneteenth National Independence Day, June 19.".
(thanks for the shout, Loudninja)
Good stuff, this is badly needed. America needs to confront it's past if we are ever going to move forward.
I don't like that this is just a cop-out for the GOP to say that racism is over and this proves it rather than enacting actual laws to present the mistreatment of black people in this nation, but yeah sure I'll take an extra paid day off.
Sign it today so all of us government employees can be like "hey yo where is our 8 hours of credit?"
Sign it today so all of us government employees can be like "hey yo where is our 8 hours of credit?"
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Not like it matters they being saying that for years since Obama got elated and whine about Black History month every chance they get.
Don't often agree with DL Hugley, but...no lies detected.
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While I understand what he's trying to say, the same people that pushed this through aren't the same people that are trying to stop slavery from being taught.
Juneteenth is the holiday where uh white people saved black people because america is the best
States are literally implementing laws this year to prevent the discussion of slavery in schools. This is not going to do what you hope it will.
Very true lol
Columbus Day and Veterans Day are Federal holidays that the Stock market isn't closed on.
Excited for it to be a holiday. I won't be getting it off but it's good for people who do. We all need to take an introspective look at what it means for the USA moving forward.
I feel like in canada there were talks about adding another federal day to do with indigenous people and I feel like that conversation died somewhere at some point so it's nice to see the usa get this one done.
Imagine if Trump won and he'd go with some shitty Confederate type of holiday thing? Didn't he plan something like that when he was around?
Who the fuck is "they"? The two are like mutually exclusive groups.
Now reparations, voting rights and the tearing down of the white supremacist institutional structure every element of American Democracy stakes itself upon would be nice.
we should per OPM Twitter, but it's gonna be an extremely fun afternoon for everyone's payroll departments because this technically doesn't actually take effect until OPM sends out the official guidance on it
(also people with RDOs are gonna have even more fun trying to figure the pay logistics out until then)
I'm a Gov't contractor and everyone is planning what to do with their day off. Of course the one Trump supporter in our area is excited for a day off. He's the laziest person in the department so no shock there.
I'm telling people to slow their roll until our leadership says something.
There are a lot of Very Miserable People online that are immediately entering a full-court press to diminish any positive attitude towards this, which I think is just a total load of BS meant to squash any feeling of progress ever. Emancipation Day should be an official holiday for the same reason Columbus Day shouldn't be. Some people are going to be deflective of progress being made on this, and then also go on to complain about how important it is to cancel Columbus Day (Democratic officials are already functionally treating it as Indigenous People's Day, even if it is still Columbus Day on the books).
Not unless they were already planning on it. This is just for federal workers and contractors, and that schedule does not align with Bank Holidays.
Bank Holidays, State Holidays, and Federal Holidays are all a slightly different subset, and it threw me off so many times (I was a state school grad student working at a National Lab, and showed up to work once to find it totally empty).
Of course Congress waited until the last possible minute to approve this, leaving federal employees unsure if they get off this year or have to wait until next year.
Where I'm at.
And you can guarantee even if the inexorable march of capitalism/commercial whitewashing occurs, it will still be very clear and commonly taught in every school exactly why this is a holiday (and why it should be)...even in the most red of red states. It will be difficult to Lost Cause this.
I'm glad this passed, cynicism be damned. I'm too Black to be mad at this. Hopefully people's private employers find ways to let them have that day off too (formally giving it off, granting floating holidays that can be used for the 19th, giving extra PTO, giving time and a half or holiday hours for part time/hourly/gig economy and contract workers, etc).
I would hope most government HR/payroll departments have a plan for this.
My state's HR does the following for holidays: if it falls on a Saturday, we receive holiday credit. If it falls on a Sunday, we receive the holiday on the Monday.
If you are normally scheduled for that day, it becomes holiday pay. If it is your RDO, you receive holiday credit.