legal holiday

And only in 1879 was his birthday formally made into a legal holiday for federal employees in the District of Columbia.

City Council members voted unanimously in March 2022 to solidify Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Juneteenth as city holidays, expanding efforts to establish both as legal holidays for city employees and as parking holidays.

Washington could become the first state in the U.S. to make Lunar New Year a paid legal holiday.

A year after Juneteenth became a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, most states have yet to enact Juneteenth legal holidays.

Tuesday’s bill expanded recent efforts to establish Indigenous Peoples Day as a legal holiday for more city employees and as a parking holiday.