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BFNY516
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Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Has your employer recognized this or has plans to?
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Posted 6/15/21 9:23 PM  |
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muffaboo
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Schools are closed next year on June 20th, in observance of Juneteenth.
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| Posted 6/15/21 9:34 PM |
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BFNY516
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
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Schools are closed next year on June 20th, in observance of Juneteenth.
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| Posted 6/15/21 9:37 PM |
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MissJones
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Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Wow!!! They actually agreed on something?
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| Posted 6/17/21 5:53 AM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Posted by BFNY516
Has your employer recognized this or has plans to?
My company sent out some emails acknowledging the new holiday, and some info on it. It's way too soon for them to try and put it into the calendar. I also doubt we'll get the day off next year. We only get 10 scheduled holidays each year. We have "floating holidays" that we can use as vacation days whenever we want, so I'm sure they'll encourage people to use a floating holiday for Juneteenth if they want to observe.
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| Posted 6/17/21 7:25 AM |
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Nope and honestly I don’t know anyone who celebrates this around me.
I assume it will be a day like MLK that you will have to use your own day if you want to.
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| Posted 6/17/21 7:38 AM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
My company doesn't even give us off for President's Day and a host of other federal holidays.
No way would we be getting this.
We are lucky to have Memorial Day etc
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| Posted 6/17/21 9:13 AM |
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seaside
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Posted by BFNY516
Posted by muffaboo
Schools are closed next year on June 20th, in observance of Juneteenth.
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| Posted 6/17/21 10:54 AM |
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Momma2015
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Yes, my company gave it off last year and said they will continue to in the future. They did not, however, give off Friday in observance of it this year. I know a few people whose companies have which I was surprised about. I wonder if they will going forward now that it's being recognized as a federal holiday.
ETA: I guess I spoke too soon- we just received an e-mail that we'll be closed tomorrow.
Message edited 6/17/2021 3:59:06 PM.
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| Posted 6/17/21 11:09 AM |
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Sash
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
I feel like NYC schools have off for so many different religious holidays now in combination with the federal holidays. They should take something away or else these kids will be going to school in July soon.
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| Posted 6/17/21 11:23 AM |
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chilltocam
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Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
For this year (because it's a NYS holiday) it's a floating holiday, so we could have taken today off, or can use it anytime. Not sure yet what will happen next year
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| Posted 6/18/21 1:56 PM |
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Posted by Sash
I feel like NYC schools have off for so many different religious holidays now in combination with the federal holidays. They should take something away or else these kids will be going to school in July soon.
They took away snow days, lol
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| Posted 6/18/21 2:32 PM |
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jellybean78
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
My company just gave us this as a holiday. Everyone had today off..
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| Posted 6/18/21 9:03 PM |
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blu6385
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Haven’t heard anything but are the rules of giving off on holidays in general?
Are there any holidays that have to be given off cause it’s a federal
Holiday??
Cause at my old job I got both MLK and Presidents’ Day off. But my current job only gives me off MLK.
But with this job we get off Good Friday but my old Job didn’t.
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| Posted 6/19/21 2:40 PM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
Posted by blu6385
Haven’t heard anything but are the rules of giving off on holidays in general?
Are there any holidays that have to be given off cause it’s a federal
Holiday??
Cause at my old job I got both MLK and Presidents’ Day off. But my current job only gives me off MLK.
But with this job we get off Good Friday but my old Job didn’t.
Private industry does not have to give any holidays off. It's at their discretion which holidays to give
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| Posted 6/19/21 6:48 PM |
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Mrs213
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
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Nope and honestly I don’t know anyone who celebrates this around me.
I assume it will be a day like MLK that you will have to use your own day if you want to.
You may not know anyone around you who celebrates it but keep in mind that for many Juneteenth is their Independence Day.
As for the day off, haven't heard anything yet. I'm a county employee so that will probably have to wait for the next time the employment contracts are negotiated. There are certain holidays off on our contract per calendar year, so I don't think it's an automatic thing. My husband gets a comp day for juneteenth as of last year...
I'm honestly so happy that this passed. Seems like a no brainer....
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| Posted 6/21/21 3:52 PM |
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tray831
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Re: Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
We received an email on Friday that they are honoring it; but starting next year. 
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