#employers
employers, i mean big corporations, and i include any big box store, gas stations, chain restaurants, etc, don’t want to give you holidays. i don’t mean vacation. i mean statutory holidays where if you are full time and working on that day you have to be paid double time or depending on the area time and a half because you are working on a holiday. and you get paid for that day anyway because it is a statuory holiday.
so when other holidays for other cultures are like, hey can’t we also get a government holiday you will get a lot of propaganda about culture wars etc because every private corporation doesn’t want to pay workers for time off and if they want their store open they have to pay their employees more. and like ppl buy into this because oh well we shouldn’t have every holiday and i am like, WHY CAN’T WE? like we already work in a dystopia
like srsly, we work way too much. and weekends are spent trying to catch up on everything you couldn’t do when you were working, that includes laundry, cooking, spending time with family, cleaning and just every chore.
so why can’t jewish holidays be statutory? or muslim holidays? we would all be winners, i used to volunteer to work on canada day because i would get more money and i didn’t have plans. it would incentivize workers who wanted extra cash but also let workers have paid time off to spend important days with their loved ones
