I take it you were never a manager. There are employees who may try filing a grievance but a good manager would have the documentation to counter it.

A year on sick leave with no documentation from a medical professional? I seriously doubt it. Where I worked if you were off even seven days you could expect to be asked for documentation. A full year? Sure, odd, one-off things happen; 12 people have walked on the moon but that hardly equates to Americans all go to the moon.

There was a Black lynched in1981, not the"DISTANT" past!

The biggest difference is that Federal employees can accumulate an unlimited number of sick days. I don't think most companies can afford to do that. Also, most upper level employees in a company are paid on a salary basis. But, Federal employees are essentially hourly workers, paid for an 8 hour day, 40 hours per week. If they work longer, you have to pay them more money. Even those making over $150K are paid by the hour. What company does that?

Mathematically, that is correct but it is a fantasy.
1. The person who has used zero sick leave in 20 years is not about to use it all at once.
2. No manager would allow their employee to be on sick leave for that long without medical documentation. (Yes, I have seen Fed employees fired for abuse of sick leave)

As far as Fed employees working hard, you apparently don't have a clue. Every place has its slackers but I personally know Fed employees who regularly worked uncompensated hours and others who gave away their annual leave rather than taking it. It is usually (not always) illegal to not pay a Fed employee for all the hours they work but it is also illegal to pay them 40 hours if they worked less - it goes both ways.

Not true. I was a manager and also was an Inspector General, responsible for knowing and enforcing the rules. The problem with asking for medical documentation is that, unless you enforce the requirement consistently across the agency, you are discriminating. Someone who wants to use a year of sick leave is just as entitled to use it as the guy who calls in sick on Monday morning almost every week. Another problem is that the employee doesn't need to be sick to use the leave. He/she can say that he needs to travel out of town to help a friend or family member. And, finally, most employees who abuse sick leave can usually provide a letter from a medical provider, and the manager has no way to dispute the letter. The agency is not going to hire a doctor to dispute a medical letter from a private doctor.

It is a righteous, evolved moment to be celebrated and marks the beginning of a future where ALL races are equally invested in America - NOT just an America for the exclusive benefit of WHITES. The future belongs to ALL races.

And that was horrible and the people who did it should be charged with murder but 40 years ago is a long time.

Things have improved substantially over time and think a new holiday is not necessary for continued improvement.

I totally agree with DAVES. I can think of many other days that deserve recognition -- the first one being Sept. 11 -- how about making that a national memorial holiday, not just a Patriots Day of recognition. That is a day that would honor all races and religions. Let's get our priorities straight!!!

Definitely not a fantasy. My experience was quite different. In my experience, it would have been almost impossible to fire a Federal employee for abusing sick leave. Typically, an employee can use sick leave by just calling into the office and not showing up. No documentation is needed. If that is the policy, then you cannot single out anyone and fire them.

Employees who don't do any work are not necessarily slackers. Some agencies have so much funding that they hire way more employees than they need. And, they will never return money that they don't need. The problem is that, without a profit motive, it is impossible to measure or control the efficiency of a Government office.

OLD people and old IDEAS die off. The future can't be stopped and IS full of NEW ideas! Racial differences are slowly becoming unimportant.

Where all races do equal work and pay equal taxes????
Where no race commits a disproportionate amount of crime?
Where no race gets to loot and burn if they don't get their way?
Where no race collects a disproportionate amount of free government "stuff"?

I'm all in favor, when does that start?

Teachers MERELY wanted SAFETY from CV, which everyone wanted. Their jobs are mostly indoors which have an 18% greater spread of CV than outdoors. Teachers did NOT want to be BULLIED by administrators that were more aligned with politicians than the teachers. CV was NEW and FRIGHTENING - teachers do NOT get DANGER pay like firefighters and the Police. CV IS still not over because of anti-vaxxers and ignorance of the strength of the Delta variant. I can understand the reluctance of teachers to jump into a petri dish.

Tribalism was an anthropological strength many eons ago. Primitive man was wary of any NOT of their small tribe. It was a survival skill then. Now, it is STILL hardwired into our brains (the base reptilian area). Consciously, today, we overcome those primitive impulses because of the greater benefits of trade, technology spread, and ease of travel. Apparently, there is human variability in the quality of the human conscious brain.

Yup. I expect we are heading into a "Great Reset" soon. The perfect storm.

It is NOT a zero-sum-game. A Federal employee getting a holiday COULD (?) help others to get the SAME holiday. It does NOT have to be a deterrent. Not sure why it would bother anyone?