Sentence examples for worker holiday from inspiring English sources

In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

MAY DAY is traditionally a workers' holiday.

That is, May Day as in the ancient pagan festival, not the workers' holiday.

Chuck both sides into a pit, let them fight it out and let's make it another workers' holiday.

Since then, May Day has been observed as a workers' holiday, first in the U.S., and then around the world.

Ms Le Pen was using the traditional workers' holiday to attack her political rivals, arguing that her party was "right on everything".

He and thirteen others were killed by gunfire in the December 2nd attack on a county workers' holiday party in San Bernardino, California.

ON May Day, the historic workers' holiday, the European Union will expand to 25 countries, bringing increased competition that forces economic liberalization in the comfortable countries of old Europe.

In yet another sign of worker frustration over a shortened Thanksgiving holiday, an employee at a Best Buy in Tampa has launched a petition against his employer's decision to open earlier for the Black Friday shopping spree this year, claiming the midnight opening time will eat into workers' holiday time with their families.

Black Friday also is ruining retail workers' holidays, as it creeps earlier into Thanksgiving: on Thursday this year Kmart will open at 6 A.M., Walmart at 6 P.M., Target at 8 P.M.

Although it had initially been conceived as a once-off event, by the following year the celebration of International Workers' Day on May Day had become firmly established as an international worker's holiday.