>So, to start yet another discussion on this already high-volume
>list: should we still give everyone the day off on Christian
>holidays only, or make those days normal working days, and let
>everyone take the day off on the religious holidays that go with
>their own religion?
Since in America, the great majority of the populace is at least nominally
Christian, I don't see that happening here, at least not any time soon.
Even if Christmas stopped being a national holiday, it may as well be one,
since almost no one is going to come to work that day anyway.
At my company, they give five floating holidays that can be spent any way
one sees fit. So a non-Christian has them to take for his holidays, and
gets Christmas off anyway, while the Christian gets his holiday, and gets to
take that floater for something else.
And FWIW, Thanksgiving is not really a religious holiday. It's become
quasi-religious, yes, but it's really more of an American tradition.
Jim
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