[Assume the ones which can fall on a weekday in fact do so, just for the sake of argument.]
In my tutoring career, a holiday usually means more students are available (and frankly I don’t mind), tho we do get a few off (other than Christmas and Thanksgiving of course, we also get Labor and Memorial days).
New Years
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Christmas
My company also has a “floating” holiday where you can choose to take either President’s Day or MLK day off, but the manager of my department decided that was stupid (rightly so, our department doesn’t function well at 50% staff), so we just get an extra vacation day for the year.
You can also mention whether you get paid or not (I don’t).
I’m a schoolteacher, so I get Saturdays and Sundays off no matter what. I also always get Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, New Years Day, and the Fourth of July, and Memorial Day off because the citizens would revolt if school were in session those days. Sometimes I will get MLK or President’s Day off, sometimes I won’t.
None of them are paid holidays, of course.
We get ten paid holidays, but they can be taken any time within the same month. Where I used to work, we got six + four floating holidays, and the floaters could be taken any time during the year.
ETA: The big six, plus Columbus, Veteran’s, MLK, and Presidents’ days.
We get:
New Years
Memorial Day
July 4
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Day after Thanksgiving - although we have a skeleton crew and I usually choose to work
Christmas
Our choice of the day before or day after Christmas
Our birthday - anytime within that month
One floating holiday
All those are with pay.
We only get Christmas Day and New Year’s Day off, no pay. But if we choose to work on those days, we get overtime pay.
Incidentally, tomorrow (Feb.20) is Love Your Pet Day. Do something special for your pet. If you don’t have a pet, adopt one! It’ll make you both happy.
Off the regular holidays, no pay of course…
I get New Years, MLK, Presidents, Memorial, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. I’ll get paid for all of them, occasionally I have to work one of them. I ask for and always get Good Friday although I have to use a vacation day for it. I also get 2 floating holidays to use as I wish.
We get Labor Day, three days at Thanksgiving, December 24-January 2, MLK, Good Friday, Memorial Day, and Independence Day.
Fourteen days off, but ten of the are from mid-November to Mid-January.
I am self-employed, and work at home. I don’t remember ever having an entire day off from work. But I love what I do, and don’t normally consider it “work.”
The usual big ones (Christmas, 4th of July, etc) but at the school, they alternate and we get Martin Luther King Day one year and Presidents Day the following year.
New Year’s Eve and Christmas Eve are “maybe”, depending on which day they hit. Usually people take a personal or vacation day to make it a full day, if it should not hit on a weekend.
I am a truck driver. I will probably not deliver a load on a holiday, but I very likely will be driving. In 2010, I had the choice between leaving early and reaching my destination on Christmas Day, or waiting until the afternoon of Christmas and leaving to make it there. In 2011, I actually had both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off. But I was 1300 miles from home on Thanksgiving.
As a paramedic, I don’t get any holidays off. I do get holiday pay for pretty much any holiday I work, at least.
Aside from the holidays listed I also get Mardi Gras(Fat Tuesday) off as I live in southern Louisiana. It generally replaces Presidents’ day for us. I’m taking a vacation day the Monday before Fat Tuesday(tomorrow!) for a lovely four-day weekend.
All the bank holidays, including Maryland Day. Had never heard of Maryland Day until I took my current job. (It’s March 25.)
It’s odd that our holidays are so stacked towards the first quarter. I get New Year’s Day (or the following Monday if it’s over the weekend), MLK Day, President’s Day, and Maryland Day all in the first quarter. Four of eleven in the first three months.
When did “Black Friday” become an actual holiday that people get off? For us, taking the day after Thanksgiving has always been an option, but it would be as a PTO day.
Christmas Eve. That’s it.
The factory I used to work at had 12 paid holidays a year. Thanksgiving and Black Friday were always 2 of them. They knew better than to think they would be able to get large numbers of people to come in the day after Thanksgiving, when they had family around. They did manage to do that on occasion, but it was because it was a paid holiday. Double time for working the holiday, plus still getting the money for the day off, so basically triple time for any hours worked. When they tried having people come in on Saturday without working the Friday, no one would. It would only have been time and half, and folks didn’t want to spoil a 4 day weekend.
As a contract employee, I don’t get paid holidays at all; I just get forced reductions in billable hours. I can ameliorate this by working from home, but it has to be negotiated beforehand. The company I work for has a nationwide holiday policy: the same 6 holidays that nearly everyone gets, plus Good Friday, Black Friday, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The site I work at just shuts down the whole week between Christmas and New Year’s, which I guess is either a holdover from before the takeover by the first company, or a maintenance thing.