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BumRushDaShow

(127,330 posts)
9. I heard yesterday that
Wed Dec 18, 2019, 12:29 PM
Dec 2019

Federal employees were given off on December 24th (plus would sign the appropriations that includes a 3.1% pay increase for federal employees.

ETA - https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2019/12/surprise-move-trump-gives-federal-employees-christmas-eve/161974/

The Christmas Eve "off" usually happens if it occurs on a Monday (with Christmas Day on a Tuesday) and a day off has been given in the past if Christmas Day is on a Thursday (and the administrative day will become that Friday the 26th). So this is an odd one (often Departments have given 2-hours off on Christmas Eve but had never experienced a near-middle of the week complete day off like this).

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