By Terrence Dopp - Nov 23, 2011 8:16 AM GMT+0700
New Jersey state employees won’t get the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday as excused time off, Governor Chris Christie said, in a break with tradition.
Christie, 49, said he won’t give public workers a long weekend following the holiday, which falls on the fourth Thursday of November each year. Previous governors have signed executive orders giving workers the extra free day.
“It’s time to get to work,” Christie said today during his monthly “Ask the Governor” radio call-in show on WKXW-FM in Ewing. “People should have access to their state government,” he said.
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, Christie’s predecessor, and state unions guaranteed workers the extra day off, said Michael Drewniak, a Christie spokesman.
“No one was expecting the governor to give us the day,” said Hetty Rosenstein, state director of the Communications Workers of America, the largest state employees union. “It’s not a big deal.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Terrence Dopp in Trenton at tdopp@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: William Glasgall at wglasgall@bloomberg.net.
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