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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
Because there are huge groups of people that don't get the day off, so that they can serve you while you're "honouring the sacrifices" of so many.
If it's a stat holiday, all employees in non-essential services should get the day off.
It's not dictating what you get to do on your holiday, it's allowing everyone that same right to that holiday.
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I think Stats are great how they are. If a company deems it to be profitable to have their employees work a stat for stat pay and this outweighs the obvious negative effect it could have with their employees, then they should be able to do. Couple of reasons for this.
A) The world doesn't stop cause a the government said today should be a day off. Oh crap you screwed up dinner and now have nothing to eat, now what? Going to eat at the Hospital?
B) There are huge opportunities thrown out the window for some businesses by being closed on stats. I.E. what better day is there for a retail store to be open then a day that everyone else has off?
C) Not everyone honors, respects or celebrates every holiday. Christmas day is one of the biggest days for the Box Office because there are a ton of people who don't celbrate Christmas and have nothing to do. This goes for every holiday.
I understand wanting to force Remembrance Day to be more of a day of honoring those who fought for our country and not just a day off for everyone to enjoy but I think that would turn it into more of a day that people resented more than anything.