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Today is a state and federal holiday and the leaders of the bar are at the annual meeting in Maui (pics here), but for those of you at work nonetheless, here’s a post if you want to discuss those or any other law related topics this fine summer Friday.
Independence Day is in two weeks. We do not need this holiday. But so long as the government gives it, I will take it.
I fully support the holiday. The meaning is appropriate. The utility is welcomed, even in proximity to the 4th of July because we already work too much.
You work less than at any time in our history. Buck up.
this is so crazy you can’t actually think this
The timing of this holiday is certainly suspect. Especially because it commemorates the relatively unimportant date of the reading of the emancipation proclamation in Galveston Texas. It would make much more sense, and remove the patina of political motivations if a more appropriate date had been chosen. Say, the date the slaves were actually freed with the ratification of the 13th amendment.
Right. Because everyone will appreciate a holiday (December 6) stuffed in and amongst Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, the commemoration of Pearl Harbor, and whatever else you’re doing in December.
Holidays come into the world like bastard children–half improvised and half compromised.
Tell me you’re white without telling me you’re white
Or the actual date of the Emancipation Proclamation (which was July 22). But I like ratification of the 13th Amendment also except that its between Thxgiving and Christmas and the day before Pearl Harbor Day (December 6).
I’m not sure how the ratification of an amendment passed almost entirely on party lines and ratified by the president’s chosen legislatures (for the states in rebellion) is any less political than a Union general reading the Emancipation Proclamation. In any event, I think Juneteenth holds at least one important lesson for all lawyers – the “law” written on a piece of paper does not automatically come into force in the real world. The slaves in Galveston had been freed by the EP for years, and yet they were still held as slaves until June 19, 1865. If we’re going to have a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery – and I think we should – Juneteenth seems as good as any to me.
The date of Christmas and Easter are suspect as well.
Is anyone in private practice actually off work today? Or is it just my office that is working?
Our office is closed, but I am working (for about another hour).
Floating holiday here – some take it, some don’t (like Veterans Day and others).
Floating holidays are just a way to screw employees. Shame on the firms that do this. Don’t tell me you’re being kind by being “flexible”. The “flexibility” is only necessary because you’ve rolled back giving employees all holidays off.
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…and with that socialistic thought, tell me how the employer’s bills and your paycheck are getting paid to give you a day off on a made up (political) holiday?
Attorneys in private practice are working today. Me, until 7:00 p.m. or so.
If the courts are closed (both State and Federal), my office is closed and staff is paid, if they qualify for paid holidays.
How much of our Bar dues are being spent on the Annual Vacation, this year in Hawaii? I resent every dime!
If you hate it so much, I recommend not sending your dues once again. hehehehe
Did they announce where the next bar meeting will be?
Canada in 2027