Did we ever make up a holiday on Friday?

RedArmy

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Didn't you know the government can mandate whatever they want? I briefly heard something on the radio about certain people wanting to move the holiday up a day or something. I didn't bother to listen since it was so stupid.
 

ProfJohn

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July 4 is a paid holiday, but since most government offices are already closed on that day they move the holiday up to Friday so everyone still gets their paid day off.
 

lxskllr

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If the holiday falls on a weekend, Friday, or Monday is used depending on which is closer to the real day.
 

Red Squirrel

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Originally posted by: ProfJohn
July 4 is a paid holiday, but since most government offices are already closed on that day they move the holiday up to Friday so everyone still gets their paid day off.

That's what they do here for Christmas and boxing day. Like if it falls on the weekend they give the Friday and Monday off.
 

Engineer

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Originally posted by: lxskllr
If the holiday falls on a weekend, Friday, or Monday is used depending on which is closer to the real day.

This.
 

Hacp

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Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

Let's pick which ones to get rid of. Very dangerous...you go first.

Columbus day. He wasn't even an American.
 

slayer202

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Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

But compared to many other countries, we have very few days off during the year.

There really aren't that many holidays we get off for.

ok so theres 10 federal holidays according to this site I was just looking at

Thursday, January 1 New Year?s Day
Monday, January 19 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 16* Washington?s Birthday
Monday, May 25 Memorial Day
Friday, July 3** Independence Day
Monday, September 7 Labor Day
Monday, October 12 Columbus Day
Wednesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 26 Thanksgiving Day
Friday, December 25 Christmas Day

 

IronWing

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Originally posted by: Hacp
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

Let's pick which ones to get rid of. Very dangerous...you go first.

Columbus day. He wasn't even an American.

Why do you hate Italians? Or is it just veiled Catholic bashing, implying Catholics aren't real Americans?

Sounds stupid but this is how the debates end up going whenever someone suggests dumping a holiday.
 

slayer202

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Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: Hacp
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

Let's pick which ones to get rid of. Very dangerous...you go first.

Columbus day. He wasn't even an American.

Why do you hate Italians? Or is it just veiled Catholic bashing, implying Catholics aren't real Americans?

Sounds stupid but this is how the debates end up going whenever someone suggests dumping a holiday.

columbus wasn't a hero, regardless of whether he was a ginny or not
 

MartyMcFly3

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Originally posted by: slayer202
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: Hacp
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

Let's pick which ones to get rid of. Very dangerous...you go first.

Columbus day. He wasn't even an American.

Why do you hate Italians? Or is it just veiled Catholic bashing, implying Catholics aren't real Americans?

Sounds stupid but this is how the debates end up going whenever someone suggests dumping a holiday.

columbus wasn't a hero, regardless of whether he was a ginny or not

I believe the word you were looking for was guinea.
 

Miramonti

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Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

Let's pick which ones to get rid of. Very dangerous...you go first.

We should get rid of:

President's Day
Good Friday (we have Christmas)
Columbus Day (this is the most ridiculous one)
Labor Day

MLK's birthday should also be deleted in a few years. There are many truly great Americans, and its doesn't make sense to single one out. I believe it has done good, but should only be temporary.
 

Miramonti

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Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

But compared to many other countries, we have very few days off during the year.

I don't live in too many other countries so I don't worry about what they have off.
 

OrganizedChaos

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In short, yes.

§ 6103. Holidays
How Current is This?
(a) The following are legal public holidays:
New Year?s Day, January 1.
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., the third Monday in January.
Washington?s Birthday, the third Monday in February.
Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.
Independence Day, July 4.
Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
Columbus Day, the second Monday in October.
Veterans Day, November 11.
Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November.
Christmas Day, December 25.
(b) For the purpose of statutes relating to pay and leave of employees, with respect to a legal public holiday and any other day declared to be a holiday by Federal statute or Executive order, the following rules apply:
(1) Instead of a holiday that occurs on a Saturday, the Friday immediately before is a legal holiday for?
(A) employees whose basic workweek is Monday through Friday; and
(B) the purpose of section 6309 [1] of this title.
(2) Instead of a holiday that occurs on a regular weekly non-workday of an employee whose basic workweek is other than Monday through Friday, except the regular weekly non-workday administratively scheduled for the employee instead of Sunday, the workday immediately before that regular weekly nonworkday is a legal public holiday for the employee.

(3) Instead of a holiday that is designated under subsection (a) to occur on a Monday, for an employee at a duty post outside the United States whose basic workweek is other than Monday through Friday, and for whom Monday is a regularly scheduled workday, the legal public holiday is the first workday of the workweek in which the Monday designated for the observance of such holiday under subsection (a) occurs.
This subsection, except subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1), does not apply to an employee whose basic workweek is Monday through Saturday.
(c) January 20 of each fourth year after 1965, Inauguration Day, is a legal public holiday for the purpose of statutes relating to pay and leave of employees as defined by section 2105 of this title and individuals employed by the government of the District of Columbia employed in the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties in Maryland, Arlington and Fairfax Counties in Virginia, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia. When January 20 of any fourth year after 1965 falls on Sunday, the next succeeding day selected for the public observance of the inauguration of the President is a legal public holiday for the purpose of this subsection.
(d)
(1) For purposes of this subsection?
(A) the term ?compressed schedule? has the meaning given such term by section 6121 (5); and
(B) the term ?adverse agency impact? has the meaning given such term by section 6131 (b).
(2) An agency may prescribe rules under which employees on a compressed schedule may, in the case of a holiday that occurs on a regularly scheduled non-workday for such employees, and notwithstanding any other provision of law or the terms of any collective bargaining agreement, be required to observe such holiday on a workday other than as provided by subsection (b), if the agency head determines that it is necessary to do so in order to prevent an adverse agency impact.
 

Engineer

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Originally posted by: jjsole
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

But compared to many other countries, we have very few days off during the year.

I don't live in too many other countries so I don't worry about what they have off.

Why do you "worry" about the holidays here and on what ones the US people get to take off?
 

boomerang

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Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3
Originally posted by: slayer202
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: Hacp
Originally posted by: ironwing
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

Let's pick which ones to get rid of. Very dangerous...you go first.

Columbus day. He wasn't even an American.

Why do you hate Italians? Or is it just veiled Catholic bashing, implying Catholics aren't real Americans?

Sounds stupid but this is how the debates end up going whenever someone suggests dumping a holiday.

columbus wasn't a hero, regardless of whether he was a ginny or not

I believe the word you were looking for was guinea.
Yeah, nothing makes a person look smarter than a racial slur spelled wrong.
 

Terzo

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Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: jjsole
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: jjsole
The US has way too many nat'l holidays.

But compared to many other countries, we have very few days off during the year.

I don't live in too many other countries so I don't worry about what they have off.

Why do you "worry" about the holidays here and on what ones the US people get to take off?

Seconded. I don't understand this or the OP. Why does it bother you that people are getting days off? Or that a holiday falling on a Saturday is being made up on Friday?
It just seems like you're being grumpy over having days off from work, and that baffles me.