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Jacson6

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3. When I was in the Military 40 years ago I had Good Friday off.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2025, 04:11 PM

Apr 18

Allowing employees to have religious days of observance is not a bad thing. IMHO.

The military did the same thing for Jewish & Muslim soldiers on their holidays.

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