re: Who else had their company swap Good Friday and MLK day as holidays this year?

We get MLK only (no Good Friday)
plus Juneteenth and Indigenous Peoples Day (Columbus Day). Welcome to working for a CA based employer. Got Presidents Day too which surprised me.

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Juneteenth

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Juneteemf…….FIFY

You are welcome!

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Downside to working in a facility that is 24/7/365, but I only work 3.5 days a week. Trying to get that down to 3 days a week.

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3 days one week and 4 the next on rotation. If it falls on me working a holiday, its double time and a half

We had it off last year but, this year, owner decided instead of GF, he would give us 7/4 & 7/5 off and make it a 4 day weekend. Got a few that didn't like it but, overall, it was well received.

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My company went to giving us two floating holidays to use when we chose. Ironically they don’t pay us out for these two days if we leave the company so pretty much every one uses them as the first two vacation days of the year.

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They are still classified as holidays not vacation days; why would they pay you out?

My employer made MLK and President's Days floating holidays; I loved it. Hung on to both until Christmas time to not burn as much vacation. Then they nixed it because there were people who took them earlier in the year and then claimed they didn't so they could try and get off later. Typical of a small percentage of screw ups ruining it for everybody.

Large oil company I worked for switched to an individual choice day long long time ago… you could use it for Easter.. mlk.. blackteenth (?)…. Etc

I also had to take transition awareness training as one of of mid managers was changing sex orientation..

Fwiw .. this was in mid 1990…… I find it interesting how so many people on this board talk like this stuff is new..

The company I work for used to give Good Friday off, but then that was dropped, and now we have Juneteenth instead.

Not me. Of course, I own the company so there is that little technicality.

Besides, have a paid holiday celebrating the Savior of humanity or some dude who had extramarital affairs with four dozen women??

Many years ago, in Seattle, my employer thought they were being brave and amazing by offering MLK day as a holiday, before the state had adopted it or renamed King county after him.. etc etc.

Did we get an extra day? Nope. They took away a day of Christmas break. I pleaded with HR to make it a flex holiday so those of that preferred to travel home for the holidays could have the time. Nope. In fact, they physically LOCKED the building to prevent people from coming in because they realized no one gave a shite about MLK in our 2,000 person company where we had maybe 5 black folks total, and those were more likely to have photos of Steve Urkel on their wall than MLK.



We had "Juneteenf" added last year, another holiday I couldn't give a half a shiat about, but at least they didn't take away anything to add it. I guess I'll take a random day off in June. We do still get Good Friday, which is nice.

MLK shouldn’t be a holiday, period.