Federal Employees Suddenly Get Friday Off

[applegrove]

Federal Employees Suddenly Get Friday Off

June 17, 2021 at 11:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 119 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/06/17/federal-employees-suddenly-get-friday-off/

"SNIP.....

President Biden plans later today to sign into law a bill creating a federal holiday to commemorate Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in Texas, the Washington Post reports.

Because June 19 falls on a Saturday this year, most federal employees will get Friday off.

......SNIP"

[msongs]

1. another day paid for no work nt

[haele]

4. Different pot of taxpayer money.

This day off won't be paid for under task funds, it will come from benefit funds, same as all leave funding.

It's a day without work accomplished, true. But it means the task funding will have an extra day's worth of sweep-up funding at the end of the fiscal year, which may keep some people from having to take an unpaid day or two off while they're trying to get funding lined up for next year. Which is always a good thing.

Haele

[underpants]

5. Yep. They get next Monday off too.

Freedom and all that you know.

[qazplm135]

9. ok

and?

[brooklynite]

10. "A poor excuse for picking a man's pockets every 25th of December..."--E. Scrooge

[applegrove]

12. One of the most important of holidays. Your point? There should be a holiday

every month because people are not chattel, literally.

[haele]

2. Friday is my bi-weekly RDO anyway.

Wonder if they'll give me next Friday off to compensate.
Probably not Monday, though.

Haele

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. I wonder if the Red Cross is working ...

I have an appointment to donate blood tomorrow, the teenth of June.

[haele]

6. They probably are.

This is so last minute, not expected, like the day after Thanksgiving of Christmas Eve might be during the year. Lots of government organizations will be scrambling to get their timekeeping software and procedures fixed to show this new holiday, so a lot of employees and supervisors can expect to have to "correct" timecards next week, especially since tomorrow is the end of the pay period.

Oye, this is sooooo last minute. I feel for my supervisor and budget coordinator who just went on leave.

Haele

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. I'd bet the post offices will be shut tomorrow.

DeJoy has shown he can stop the mail instantly!

[msongs]

11. darn it I was looking forward to an hour wait in line. hmmm nt

[Sympthsical]

8. Does this mean no mail? Wait, this might mess with my job.

Ooft. I deal with the federal government for work and actually had a call scheduled for tomorrow.

So happy about the holiday. It's well overdue.

Annoyed this is messing with me with pretty much zero notice.

99% happy!

1% irritated at the moment.