>New Jersey workers won’t get post-holiday day off, Christie says
New Jersey state employees won’t be given the day after the Thanksgiving holiday as excused time off, Governor Chris Christie said, breaking with tradition.
Workers can only get a four-day weekend starting tomorrow if they use one of their days off following the holiday, Christie, 49, said yesterday. Governors since the 1960s have signed executive orders letting employees skip coming in the day after Thanksgiving each year.
“It’s time to get to work,” Christie said during his monthly “Ask the Governor” radio call-in show on WKXW-FM in Ewing. “People should have access to their state government.”
Christie tried to end the practice last year, yet was overruled by the Public Employment Relations Commission in Trenton. The panel said an agreement between Jon Corzine, the governor’s predecessor in the capitol, and state unions guaranteed workers the extra day off, said Michael Drewniak, a Christie spokesman. That agreement expired in January. (Dopp, Bloomberg)
