Re: Religion returns to Easter

In article <13tqobrrkiqqn3f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Petrea Mitchell <pravn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> At 16 Mar 2008 13:40:59 -0400,
> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> strode forth and proclaimed:
> 
> > In the US, Easter weekend is no longer than any other weekend.  Nobody
> > (that I know of) gets that Friday or Monday off.
> 
> Au contraire! My employer includes Good Friday as a holiday. I've never
> found out why, other than "the policy says there will be ten paid
holidays
> and someone picked that day", but it does. (Although techinically I'm
not
> getting Good Friday off, because I chose to work that day and take a
> different day off in exchange.)
> 
> The local Catholic university gives everyone Monday off. I expect that's
> par for the course for Catholic universities, even in the US.

The one I teach at has Good Friday off, but not the monday.

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