A new federal holiday.

[bakerjw]

If you work for the government, you have a new federal holiday.

[Hogtamer]

That makes 44 paid holidays for federal employees,

[nannyhammer]

I just wished they would put new holidays during hunting season......

[beechbum444]

where can I apply???

[MUSTANG]

Wall Street and the Bond Market are in Turmoil. They are not prepared to shutdown the Stock and Bond Markets for a Long Weekend tomorrow (17 June 2021) for a Holiday that Biden only signed into Law this afternoon without warning; but being good progressives they want to jump to.

[farmbif]

not for nothing on the Wall Street, stock and bond market thing.. if you look through history the markets just may be way past due for a major correction....
any good excuse will do when the richest folks in the world decide to consolidate wealth and take all the little minor investors, day traders and idiot investor's money and push the out of the markets.

[sparky45]

I'm so embarrassed by the stupidity of our present governance. Does that mean no mail tomorrow?

[JimB..]

So because slaves were freed in Texas today’s taxpayers get to pay government workers not to work? Perhaps there could have been a better way to recognize the day?

[abunaitoo]

Another black holiday????
How many is that now????
I wonder which one they're going to get rid of.
Remember when Presidents Day was a holiday?????
Wonder how many more black holidays we're going to have????
Wonder when Christmas is going to be canceled????
Even Good Friday????
It's just getting silly.

[NSB]

Common sense (a dire shortage in government) says that if you want to bring a new holiday in you should decide which one you’re going to get rid of. Who’s paying for all of this? I’m not being racist about this, but there’s a HUGE price to pay for every holiday where millions of people stay home and get paid and everything in the government gets shut down. We need to have a finite number of paid holidays. In another hundred years we’ll just stay home every day?

[Slim Chance Pistolero]

interesting that they use the symbol for the Black Panters, raised clenched fist, for this NEW holiday ... so, 44 current federal holidays, just 321 more holidays and our great government will finally function

[NSB]

That makes 44 paid holidays for federal employees,
They get an average of that many days off for vacation, holidays, etc. There are actually only 10 holiday days off.
New Year’s Day
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington’s Birthday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

Juneteenth makes number 11

[richhodg66]

No problem with the holiday, but it does seem like a 12 hour until implementation time was strange. I was supposed to go on post to get something done today and got the heads up late yesterday that civil service employees are off today.

I just noticed on the news a minute ago that our school district is not canceling scheduled Summer school. They're on a tight enough schedule that they could afford an unprojected no-school day I suppose.

[Hogtamer]

13 sick days, 20 days paid vacation, and now 11 federal holidays = 44 paid days off, 9 weeks annually, more than 2.25 months of work days.

[bedbugbilly]

Another holiday - just one more for the school district in NJ that is in an uproar because the Socialist school board announced that no holiday would be named on the school calendar - but I'm guessing this one will be listed . . .

I think every American should sign a petition and demand another holiday . . . THE EVERY FEDERAL EMPLOYEE HAS TO WORK HOLIDAY . . . . they finally have to work at least one day a year, the rest of us get the day off

[NSB]

Not hard to figure out why everyone wants to be a Federal worker or a politician. Hogs lining up at the trough.

[Shanghai Jack]

You're welcome to apply

https://www.usajobs.gov/

[zarrinvz24]

If it makes any of you feel better, I'm Active duty USMC and I'm at work today. Business as usual.

[Shanghai Jack]

Oohrah

[farmbif]

im not sure about 44 holiday days for fed workers, actual fed holidays I thought were less than dozen. if this how it is with federal job its not much different than a good corporate job like the one I had before being run out of it by affirmative action.
after 2 years I had 2 weeks paid sick leave, 2 weeks paid vacation, double time pay if had to work on one of the federal holidays and double-time pay for anything over 40 hours each week. plus about the best medical insurance, death insurance and disability insurance, plus there was a great pension plan, that is until the corporate board stole the pension funds and told everyone you got to start over with this 401k thing.
these days another holiday, what's it mean to me, not much unless I was planning trip to post office or bank or something, other than that its just another day, the sun will rise and the sun will set

[Scrounge]

If you work for the government, you have a new federal holiday.

If you are a conservative, it gives you a day to grind the liberal's noses in the fact that Republicans freed the slaves from folks who were mostly Democrats.

[Scrounge]

13 sick days, 20 days paid vacation, and now 11 federal holidays = 44 paid days off, 9 weeks annually, more than 2.25 months of work days.

I spent 24 years as a federal employee. Salaried. Got paid the same for a 20 hour week as I did the for the 40 hour week. Or the 80 hour week, for that matter. I worked a lot more 80 hour weeks than 20 hours weeks, though. Lots more 12 hour days than 8, too.

Bill
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)

[Scrounge]

If it makes any of you feel better, I'm Active duty USMC and I'm at work today. Business as usual.

I knew you and your brothers and sisters will be at work. Just like I was in my time. However many days in a row, however many hours in a day. Thank you!

Bill

[Scrounge]

I'm so embarrassed by the stupidity of our present governance. Does that mean no mail tomorrow?

Post Awful said they can't change things that fast, so the mail will go through this time.

[nicholst55]

I cannot for the life of me understand why our esteemed President (Hatch Act duly satisfied - yes, I'm a federal employee, and I worked on Friday) didn't insist that Congress make this new holiday effective NEXT YEAR! That's assuming that it had to be done at all, but we won't go there.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

National mind your own beeswax day? Could use that....