In fact, a federal holiday doesn’t guarantee workers will get even one day off as they apply only to federal government employees and institutions. It is up to individual employers to decide whether ...

It’s a holiday that brings bank and school closures, as well as one that many Americans may use to score shopping ...

But by the late 1960s, frustration had grown with the system that often plunked national ... to the Gregorian calendar. On June 27, 1968, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act with ...