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Too many non-working holidays in America.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨workreform@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technically, there is no law requiring a company to provide PTO or close on Holidays. Its up to the company, not this stupid bastard.

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    • Zenith@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The government is however required to give most employees several days off throughout the year which might be what he’s bitching about

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  • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thinly veiled attempt to get rid of juneteenth. So just the usual rightwing racism.

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  • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh yes, all eleven federal holidays will turn into 365 real soon.

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    • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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      • Penny7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        As a Pagan, if you want federal holidays to be secular then solstices and equinoxes couldn’t be counted. Many Pagans (not all) observe them as holy days along with Feb 1-2 (Imbolc), May 1 (Bealtaine - there are multiple spellings this one), August 1 (Lammas/Lughnasadh), and Halloween (Samhain). And I’m sure Pagans that celebrate non-European traditions have other days, I just can’t speak to them personally.

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  • DegenerationIP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Happens in Germany too right now. People really need to find back to Unions and take more Power over their rights, before they just Cut it off

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    • Crankenstein@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Happening all over the globe. The capitalist hegemony is getting scared because their system is collapsing in on itself and, through the imperial boomerang, are beginning to employ practices only performed abroad on the interior in order to maintain their power.

      Now is most certainly the time for people to unionize and start relearning why unions formed in the first place: so workers can band together to exert their political will and take ownership over their workplace from a parasitic class that has only ever existed to exploit our labor.

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    • Muffi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same in Denmark. This is our first year without “Store Bededag” (single day holiday), which our useless fucking government decided to remove, as part of their war-consent-manufacturing.

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    • SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Since both heads of state were heavily “sponsored” by blackrock et al., similiar policies are to be expected.

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  • EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Biggest problem with non-working “holidays” is that they only apply to certain more privileged people who also get paid to not work. Everyone else either sits at home unpaid for the day, or has to work (most often without any additional compensation) to support those who do get the paid day off.

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    • DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not actually a privilege to have paid time off and paid holidays, it’s the norm across the developed world. United States is just creepy

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    soon we’ll have a holiday for every once working day of the year

    Damn! Not that the whole bleat isn’t awful, but that’s one of the stupidest sentences ever in ALL of the ways! 🤦

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He’s just very forward thinking. In 14000 years you’ll be sorry for not heading this warning!

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  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t tourism help the economy? You gotta give people time off to be the consumers you want them to be.

    I know nurses and other government employees who wouldn’t want less mandatory holidays off, you’re either off or get holiday pay to work on a Monday!

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  • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    $BILLIONS

    I mentally read this in the same voice I read $VARIABLE.

    exec *>/dev/null

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    • bender223@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      🤓

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    300 million people can’t have a single fucking day off every once in a while because it will “cost billions”, while less than 10 people are hoarding over a TRILLION in wealth.

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  • b3an@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Go play golf and change your diaper grandpa, you’re getting crabby.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No one is forcing anyone to be closed on holidays! There’s no law or rule or anything!

    Banks don’t have to close and work absolute shit hours because they handle money!

    You wanna make more money stay open on holidays.

    I work in appliance repair I get the 4th thanksgiving and Christmas and new years.

    It sucks. But we make more money.

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    • Stupidmanager@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My sleep deprived brain trying to process the 4th thanksgiving. Like, I only get one and this guy gets 4. I’m going to go to sleep now, you should also invest in some commas. :)

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      • psivchaz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I was thinking he only took Thanksgiving off every 4 years.

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Too many non-working presidents and billionaires in your country.

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    • Alaik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Truer words have not been spoken.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They had the option of Bernie, Harris and Walz just in the last decade, they, they chose the president they chose.

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  • drhodl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Says the obese pig to whom EVERY day is a holiday and a reason to golf. I never knew that POTUS was a part time position. America is fucked if there’s ever a crisis before 11:00am, on a week end, or on a golfing day…

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    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      11 am? Hey he gets up daily at 4 am and “truths” on his website for a couple hours while on the toilet

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      • drhodl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yep. And then he watches Fox Misinformation channel in his “executive time” until 11.00 am. Or maybe he’s watching that from the toilet, too. I don’t know or care, but I do know that he doesn’t actually work much. He thinks that signing EO’s and hogging the media’s attention is somehow “working”. Everything else is delegated or ignored.

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And here we see this buffoon once again viciously attacking his political enemies…(Flips papers)…

    …“Anyone with half a brain who works for a living.”

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  • AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And he seriously said this, what the actual fuck. It seemed so absurd that i had to look up, and yeah its there…

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Remind me how “all these businesses” can be closed if only the federal government actually takes the day off for federal holidays?

    Here in the real US (I.E not has make up fantasy land that he wants his user base to believe in), most companies were business as usual. As most companies only really close for Christmas and and maybe Thanksgiving and Easter.

    Not to mention that most Federal workers are salary, and their pay includes holidays, if he were to remove the holidays as part of the package, he would need to spend /more/ money on the workers, so it’s not like it would be a plus even in his imaginary world. This is ignoring the fact that a good portion of the federal government is also unionized. so this entire plan would fall short before it even hit the water.

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    • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I wanna say the majority of people have less holidays off these days already. Hell even paid holidays (where the business doesn’t close but you get 1.5x pay) seem to be shrinking.

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  • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hoffa and JFK got whacked for less than this.

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What the hell is a non working holiday? Last I checked everyone with a real job works every holiday.

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    • Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What are these “real jobs” you speak of? At the absolutely very least, teachers typically also have off for many federal holidays, are you saying that isn’t a “real job”?

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      • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If abusing kids was a job the unemployment rate would be damn near 0.

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  • Penny7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All righty then Ebeneezer…

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Back to the days of peasants petitioning the lord to restore their holy days

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If I remember something from r/ask_historians, is that peasants had a shit ton of holidays and festivals.

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  • UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is that in project 2025 ? I dont remember but they are on track for sure.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Says the man that golf’s more than work

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He’s right. This year, everybody’s gotta work Christmas.

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You know those tropes in old cartoons where overworked factory workers are given a union-mandated 3-minute lunch break? That’s the future of America.

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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “MAKE LINE GO UP FOR YOUR OWNERS”

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Didn’t he just create like two new holidays?

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like the WH chef staff ran out of chicken nuggies

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  • imTIREDnhungryboss@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    someone do the fuckin deed already, I’m so fuckin sick of this jackass and all his Republican dumbfucks

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  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    "STFU, Donnie. You’re out of your element. "

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  • Heikki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Working with people in other countries it really make me jealous they have a notional holiday, seeming every month where the business is closed. Really wish the US had more days like that

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    • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We have fewer holidays than medieval peasants. Economic historians vary between 150 and 250 work days vs 261 for a Mon-Fri job.

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    • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As far as I can tell the US has only slightly less than an average number of public holidays, but the amount of PTO is close to zero for a lot of people.

      EU working time directive requires 28 paid days off per year (including public holidays) as a minimum.

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      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just to be slightly clearer (unless it’s changed since Brexit) those 28 days may or may not include public holidays at the company’s discretion.

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