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Originally Posted by alwann
With all due respect to Juneteenth, just how many federal holidays annually are observed these days? Given nearly 3 million fed employees, those extra paid days off must cost tax payers a bundle. Are these days off in addition to vacation and religious holidays?
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There are now 11 Federal holidays. They are in addition to vacation time and sick leave. A Federal employee with at least 15 years of service gets 11 paid holidays, 13 days of sick leave, and 26 days of vacation time. But, in my opinion, they don't cost the taxpayer anything because most Federal offices are so overstaffed that days off don't have much effect on productivity. The largest issue for a Federal manager is sick leave, because an employee can accumulate 13 days per year with no limit. So, after 20 years, many Federal employees have enough sick leave to be absent from the job for more than a year, and the supervisor cannot replace them. This would never work in the private sector.