New Jersey a holiday paradise
To state workers, New Jersey has been a holiday paradise. They get 14 paid holidays a year, counting the day after Thanksgiving, which is not an official holiday but by tradition has been granted by a succession of governors. Gov. Corzine says this year is the last year that will happen.
In researching today's editorial on the topic, "Black Friday for the unions" (see http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/OPINION/611210332/1029), we were unable to find any other states that offered as many paid holidays as New Jersey. California also had 14 until Gov. Schwarzenegger managed to roll it back to 12. Twelve was the most we found in other states. Some had nine, and the average was about 10 or 101/2.
If the Legislature actually follows through on a property tax reform committee's recommendations to reduce the number of paid holidays, disgruntled state workers might want to consider applying for a government job in Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands, which both have 21 national holidays.
In the Virgin Islands, in addition to all the usual holidays granted public employees in the U.S., public workers can look forward to having off on Maundy Thursday, Hurricane Supplication Day, Hurricane Thanksgiving Day and Organic Act Day.
In Puerto Rico, workers get Mothers Day and Fathers Day off, in addition to the birthdays of Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Jose de Diego and Jose Celso Barbosa.
In researching today's editorial on the topic, "Black Friday for the unions" (see http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/OPINION/611210332/1029), we were unable to find any other states that offered as many paid holidays as New Jersey. California also had 14 until Gov. Schwarzenegger managed to roll it back to 12. Twelve was the most we found in other states. Some had nine, and the average was about 10 or 101/2.
If the Legislature actually follows through on a property tax reform committee's recommendations to reduce the number of paid holidays, disgruntled state workers might want to consider applying for a government job in Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands, which both have 21 national holidays.
In the Virgin Islands, in addition to all the usual holidays granted public employees in the U.S., public workers can look forward to having off on Maundy Thursday, Hurricane Supplication Day, Hurricane Thanksgiving Day and Organic Act Day.
In Puerto Rico, workers get Mothers Day and Fathers Day off, in addition to the birthdays of Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Jose de Diego and Jose Celso Barbosa.
posted by Randy Bergmann at 9:26 AM
3 Comments:
What? No paid day off for St. Bernard's day? I am outraged I tell you!
I worked for the private sector in occupations where you get a few holidays off, or none off. I work in the public sector and when I first started about 5 years ago, I was amazed and even shocked at all the holidays off we got. However, as time goes on I am more amazed and shocked at the abuse of time the management in public sector commits. You see, regardless of what your hours may be in some areas of the public sector, when your boss says you are staying after hours or coming in early or working on Saturday, you do it, without extra pay. Granted Corzine has changed policy at least the policy where I work was changed in such that no one comes in before 8am and no one should stay after 6pm, but that is not always the case from some managers. So for all the thousands of hours that so many public service employees have "donated" ... God bless you... because things are only going to get worse.
Happy Thanksgiving.
well, he's what everyone forgets.
If you make "X" dollars for a years worth of work and you get 14 days off with pay and then you make the person work that day, your taking away a days worth of pay by making him work that day. Thus, your going to have to compensate him for that days loss and raise his salary. If I make you come in on your day off, you'll expect to get paid for it..right?
you save nothing.
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