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Ask HN: Is your company giving you a holiday for Juneteenth?
Taking a casual survey to see which companies are giving their employees time off for Juneteenth, acknowledging it, or not mentioning it
If folks are open to it, name your company and whether they're doing any of the above
- legitster 4y agoIt's a banking holiday. I have the day off and so does nearly everyone I know who works a white collar job. At the software company I work at, there was some acknowledgement for it, but for the most part it's been completely overshadowed by Pride month.
- crymer11 4y agoWe get the day off for it at Updater.
- jitl 4y agoWe have the day off at Notion.
- xjose97x 4y agoWe have the day off at Loop Support.
- aetherson 4y agoWe have Monday off at Instacart.
- claudiom 4y agoI'm an employee at our school district here and we also have Monday off to commemorate Juneteenth.
- jrowley 4y agoI’m at Curebase. US employees have the Monday off.
- SeanAnderson 4y agoWe have the day off at Collage.com
- EddieDante 4y agoIt gets mentioned and acknowledged, but it isn't a company holiday, though I'm allowed to take paid time off.
- foogazi 4y ago> though I'm allowed to take paid time off. Does this mean it’s an optional day off ?
- EddieDante 4y agoNo, it means I have a ready-made excuse to take a day off. =^.^=
- mariojv 4y agoUS employees get the day off at Okta.
- atlgator 4y agoYes - They also stopped acknowledging Father's Day.
- yashap 4y agoHuh, I’ve never been at a company that did anything for Father’s Day - probably because it’s on a Sunday. What did your company do previously?
- atlgator 4y agoJust acknowledged it through email and well wishes from leadership. As they do Mother’s Day.
- Zircom 4y agoI've never had or heard of a company giving people time off on father's or mother's day.
- ComradePhil 4y ago
- dsr_ 4y agoThat they aren't held in slavery anymore -- similar to Passover.
- millerm 4y agoWe have holidays that commemorate the birth and death of mythical gods. This holiday has merit. Try to remember the fact that we don’t have slavery anymore, and it’s a human right to NOT be one. It could’ve been you next.
- webtv-user 4y agoWe haven't done away with slavery. https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...
- yashap 4y agoAs I posted here, take a peek at their past comments, they’re an outright neo-nazi Holocaust denier, and they seem to see Hitler as a hero: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31791070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31791070 Not surprising a racist disagrees with celebrating the emancipation of African American slaves.
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- ComradePhil 4y ago> mythical gods And? Myths are what shape culture and thinking of people. They are important. The fact that people who happened to have a certain color of skin did something to people of a certain color has no meaning to people of a completely different time when those things are not even remotely relevant. The only reason I can think why this exists is because someone decided to exploit people of today based on skin color.
- artificial 4y agoIt’s observed at Shipt.
- millerm 4y agoYes, Target.
- linux2647 4y agoObserving it on Monday at Stitch Fix
- higgins 4y agoYes — turntable.fm
- JoelMcCracken 4y agoYes, on Monday. TVision Insights.
- nullcipher 4y agoWhy is this question asked? Any context?
- hoherd 4y agoUS employees at Astronomer.io get Juneteenth off.
- golergka 4y agoI work remotely for an american company from outside the us and have no idea what juneteenth even is.
- bckr 4y agoIt commemorates emancipation for slaves in the US, and I would say most people didn't know about it until last year or so.
- rchowe 4y agoPresident Biden made it a federal holiday last year. I work in manufacturing and I haven’t met many companies that are taking it off. I had hoped it would immediately be a paid holiday for most folks, but I think it’s going to take a few years to get to that point.
- Leherenn 4y agoWhat does it being a federal holiday entail in the US? Here it would mean a paid day off but based on your comment that's not the case.
- sgent 4y agoFederal employees get a paid holiday, banks and financial institutions are closed, federal government offices and post offices are closed. Private companies and state and local governments can make their own choices about whether to be open / closed / allow days off. I live in the south in about a 50% black area and most of our businesses are either closed or giving the people the option to take it off -- many did this even before Biden's declaration. Also many companies give X paid holidays per year, then allow you to choose which ones you use them for to an extent. I usually work Christmas so I get two paid ones I use for a regional holiday plus an extra floating day off.
- bradknowles 4y ago
- Overtonwindow 4y agoWell it’s a bank holiday… But I don’t consider it an actual holiday so I still go to work.
- notjustanymike 4y agoBiodigital, yep. We also close the office a full week from Christmas to New Years.
- mcphage 4y agoJack Henry—we get it off as a floating holiday.
- trevoristall 4y agoYes, HubSpot
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- koz1000 4y agoYes, Fluke Electronics.
- et-al 4y agoYes we have it off. NYC-headquarted company with office in SF. If you need to convince management, the federal government recognized it as a holiday in 2021. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/17/nearly-half-of-states-now-recognize-juneteenth-as-an-official-holiday/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/17/nearly-half...
- ebb_earl_co 4y agoYes, Monday is a company holiday for Albertsons Companies.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoYes
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoYes, Jane Technologies
- michel-slm 4y agoBig Tech firm - acknowledged it with a day of learning but no day off, which is not fun especially for parents whose kids' schools do close on Monday
- SAI_Peregrinus 4y agoYes. They did even before it was a federal holiday in the US. Company is Motive Technologies, Inc.
- unit0x03 4y agoStorj(.io) is giving all their employees worldwide the day off, with no caveats.
- hui-zheng 4y agoIn the spirit of the Juneteenth last Sunday, as a first generation Chinese immigrant from Mainland China, with firsthand experience and struggle with group identity and victimhood in both China and North America, I would like to share this great movie, "Uncle Tom", to remind us of what makes America America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLj-zARCv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLj-zARCv8