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Christmas Eve is not a designated federal holiday. Still, U.S. presidents, including Joe Biden and Donald Trump, have used the holiday to grant a day off to the country's more than 2 million ...
Biden makes news on pay raises and Christmas Eve. Biden also recently announced Christmas Eve as a day off for the country’s more than 2 million federal employees. The White House announced on ...
Former President Barack Obama gave federal employees an extra day off but instead of Christmas Eve, December 26, 2014 was deemed a holiday. Former President George W. Bush also marked Dec. 24 as a ...
[3] Although at first applicable only to federal employees in the Washington, D.C., Congress extended coverage in 1885 to all federal employees. The original four holidays in 1870 were: New Year's Day; Independence Day; Thanksgiving Day; Christmas Day; George Washington's Birthday became a federal holiday in 1879.
The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [2] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.
The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 (GEFTA) is a United States federal law which requires retroactive pay and leave accrual for federal employees affected by the furlough as a result of the 2018–19 federal government shutdown and any future lapses in appropriations. [1]
The VA said the combined salary of the employees – including base pay, locality pay and additional earnings – exceeds $8 million, with the average pay being about $136,000 per year, per employee.
President Biden celebrates the fourth and final Christmas Day of his administration. [96] President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on Christmas Day: Thursday, December 26: President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden travel to the US Virgin Islands to vacation there until after the new year despite his term only having three weeks left. [97]