The French get a mandatory seven weeks (35 days) of holidays!
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Congress must designate the holiday.
There are a few paid holidays that private house housekeeper gets to have. These holidays include Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving.
It would depend on the contract the nurse is held to. In general though many nurses and others in that profession do get paid time and a half for working holidays.
I'm sure it depends on the locality. Here in my city, police officers get 13 paid holidays, but two weeks vacation.
All Congress gets paid the same male and female.
Labor being a paid holiday is up to each company. If you work for a company that has paid holidays, it is likely that Labor Day is one of your paid holidays.
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Paid holidays were first introduced in 1936. The year is still known as the birth of the 'congés payés'
When companies became unionized one of the things was paid holidays that they got in negotiations.
Congress paid many soldiers with land because in the early days of the country the government had lots of land and little money.