The company I work for observes six paid holidays* every year - usually (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day). If a holiday with a fixed date falls on a weekend day, my company observes it on the closest weekday (Friday observance for a Saturday holiday, Monday observance for a Sunday Holiday).
As it happens, New Year’s Day 2021 was on a Friday, so we observed it on that day. But New Year’s Day 2022 is a Saturday, we’re observing it today, December 31, 2021.
So, in 2021, we’re getting seven paid holidays and observing New Year’s Day twice, but in 2022, we’ll only get five paid holidays and we won’t observe New Year’s Day at all.
*In my company, on a paid holiday, most staff get the day off with pay without using any of their own Paid Time Off. We’re a medical lab company though, so some people, like me, still need to work. I’ll be getting eight hours of Holiday Pay (my normal base rate for my normal scheduled hours), and time-and-a-half for my actual hours worked today.
Oh, I’m not at all worried about that. It makes absolutely no practical difference. I’m just sitting here at work without much to do, and I just thought it was a bit of Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share.
I get 9 holidays a year: New Years Day, MLK day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Xmas Eve, Xmas, and NYE. If any of those fall on a Saturday or Sunday, it becomes a ‘floating holiday’ to be used at the employee’s discretion on any other working day. Sweet deal.
There are still a few advantages for working for the government.
I work for a private company, and we get all of those, plus the day after Thanksgiving. I personally don’t get all of them, since I’m in Finance so still need to work when banks and stock/bond markets are open. But they become extra personal days for me, so it’s actually a bit better. That said, I haven’t used all my vacation/personal days in years.
I burn 'em all or store them. I have enough seniority to put up to 72 hours unused time a year into “sabbatical” which never expires. I’ve currently got 588 hours there, which I will use up after I stop working but before I’m officially “retired” and off the books. I will probably have at least 700 hours off time to burn by the time I actually stop working. Call it 20 weeks since I’m a 0.9 full time employee. Over 4 months retirement paid at my working wages.