Christmas Eve Holiday Federal 2019

Niels lesniewski nielslesniewski december 11 2020.

Christmas eve holiday federal 2019. In his executive order trump directed. President donald trump passed an executive order on tuesday giving federal workers christmas eve off with pay for the second year in a row. President donald trump is giving most federal workers the gift of an extra day off this holiday season.

In 2018 when the government was experiencing a shut down the president declared christmas eve a federal holiday. Christmas eve is not a federal holiday but the president can issue an executive order to give federal workers the day or a half day off if he chooses. Will federal employees get an extra holiday on christmas eve we don t know of course but the precedent has not been good for federal workers who would like the extra day off in 2019 without having to dip into their leave account.

As often happens about this time of year readers are asking. But that could change. Unfortunately christmas eve is not a federal holiday in 2019.

Christmas eve is not a federal holiday but the president can issue an executive order to give federal workers the day or a half day off if he chooses. Christmas falls on a wednesday in 2019. Christmas eve is on tuesday.

All executive departments and agencies of the federal government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on tuesday december 24 2019 the day before christmas day trump s order reads. Christmas eve is now a federal holiday in 2020 according to an executive order signed friday by president trump. But the current calendars for 2019 and 2020 show that only christmas day is a federal holiday.

Trump previously gave federal workers the full day off in 2018 and 2019.