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Die folgenden letzten Nachrichten über die Feiertage von USA sind in Englisch. Falls Sie irgendwelche Fragen hinsichtlich dieser Anmerkungen haben sollten, kontaktieren Sie uns bitte. • 02 Aug 2009 (Islamic Society of North America-ISNA) The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) has announced that the holy fasting month of Ramadan will start, in North America, on Saturday, August 22, 2009.
• 14 Jun 2009 (United Press International-UPI) National Conference of State Legislatures spokeswoman, Meagan Dorsch, has announced that a number of U.S. states are considering eliminating public holidays to help balance their budgets.
• 27 Mar 2009 (The Washington Post-Washington D.C.) The mayor of the US capital, Washington DC, Adrian M. Fenty, has proposed abandoning the April 16, Emancipation Day municipal public sector holiday.
• 21 Feb 2009 (Brennan Center for Justice-NYU School of Law) An omnibus bill (the Voting Opportunity and Technology Enhancement Rights Act of 2009) tabled by Representative John Conyers Jr. and 5 co-sponsors would make Election Day a legal public holiday (as described in section 6103 of title 5, United States Code), every even-numbered year, beginning in 2010.
• 15 Dec 2008 (The White House-Washington DC) US President, George W. Bush, released an Executive Order, dated December 12, indicating that "All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Friday, December 26, 2008, the day after Christmas Day".
• 11 Nov 2007 (The New York Sun) Earlier in the week, New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, jumped into a debate over whether Election Day should be a public holiday, saying that he was against it and that there is no excuse why city employees have an election Day public holiday.
• 22 Aug 2007 (KPNX-12) U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) has introduced Bill S.1852 that would create a special holiday, Native American Heritage Day, honoring the contributions of Native Americans make, on the day after Thanksgiving.
• 02 Jun 2007 Senator Clinton's 2005 Count Every Vote Act, mandating that election day be made a US federal public holiday, is getting a second lease in life with the recent introduction of comprehensive election reform legislation, the Ballot Integrity Act of 2007.
• 28 Feb 2007 (Microsoft) Daylight saving time (DST) will start on March 11, 2007, which is three weeks earlier than usual, and it will end on November 4, 2007, which is one week later than usual.
• 30 Dec 2006 (The Wall Street Journal) NYSE to Close in Ford's Honor. On Friday, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) joined the Nasdaq Stock Market in announcing it would close on Tuesday January 2nd, 2007, in observance of a national day of mourning for former President Gerald Ford.
• More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the USA public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters. |
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Die folgenden Anmerkungen über die Feiertage von USA sind in Englisch. Falls Sie irgendwelche Fragen hinsichtlich dieser Anmerkungen haben sollten, kontaktieren Sie uns bitte. • Officially, the U.S. has no national public holidays. The president and congress may only declare public holidays for federal employees and for the District of Columbia. Each state decides which public holidays will be observed within its borders. Having said this, one can be fairly certain that very little business will get done on these listed holidays. When a public holiday for a Day of Mourning is declared, it only applies to these same employees. Banks, stores, businesses, state employees, and schools maintain their normal schedules, although they will fly their flags at half mast. Postal workers are federal employees and are closed on federal holidays.
• 5 of these public holidays are always on Mondays while Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday.
• The federal rules that apply to New Year's Day, Independence Day, Veterans' Day, and Christmas are as follows. If the holiday falls on a Saturday, then the preceding Friday is the day off work. If the holiday falls on a Sunday, then the federal holiday is the next Monday. This is only for federal employees. Individual states may do as they please.
• Various states have other ways of dealing with these days, some of which are to move fixed-date public holidays to the following Monday, whenever it falls on a Saturday or a Sunday. Some places simply let employees take off a mutually agreed upon day at another time. Each state also may have some other holidays that it celebrates.
• If New Year's Day is a Sunday, then most people other than federal employees will be at work on Monday, Jan. 2nd. Many people take the week off between Christmas and New Year's and so need to be back on Jan. 2.
• Martin Luther King Day supplanted Lincoln's Birthday which used to be a week before Washington's Birthday. Although still legally called Washington's Birthday, it is usually referred to as Presidents' Day now.
• Many people do work on Presidents' Day as most schools have a week off around that time. Columbus Day and Veterans' Day are also not strictly observed as public holidays.
• Easter: Good Friday or Easter Monday are still holidays in several states, although not federally. Many stores that are usually open on Sundays, do not open on Easter.
• The Friday after Thanksgiving is considered to be the biggest shopping day of the year and is a day that most workers not involved in the retail trade have off. This is also the most traveled time of the year for Americans, even more so than Christmas. It is wise to avoid having to travel from Wednesday through Sunday, unless it can't be helped.
• Regardless of which days Christmas and New Year's fall on, many businesses tend to have at least limited hours between these holidays.
• Muslim Dates and Holidays: On August 6, 2006, the ISNA has agreed to use astronomical calculation to predict the dates when Islamic months begin. A five-year calendar can now be found on their website .
• In August of 2005 the United States Congress passed the Energy Policy Act which changes the start dates and the end dates of daylight saving time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one week later on November 4, 2007. These dates are referred to in this article as the Extended DST period.
• Cesar Chavez's Birthday: The birthday of the civil rights activist, March 31, is observed in California and Texas, and is an optional public holiday in Arizona and Colorado. However, due to Chavez's longstanding and oft re-iterated emphasis on the importance of education, schools are usually not closed on the date of his birthday. |
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Observance : Jeder Eintrag in der "Observance" spalte gibt an, dass es sich bei dem Feiertag in USA um einen regionalen oder nicht offiziellen oder auf bestimmte religiöse und/oder linguistische Gruppen beschränkten Feiertag oder einen jener Feiertage handeln kann, die zu einem anderen Zeitpunkt als Mitternacht beginnen. Zum Erhalt weiterer Informationen sehen Sie bitte unsere Seiten über die religiösen Kalender dieser Welt. |
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Während wir uns nach besten Kräften
bemühen, eine korrekte Liste der Bankfeiertage und gesetzlichen
Feiertage des Jahres 2009 für USA zu präsentieren, können wir jedoch
keinerlei Haftung für irgendwelche Fehler oder Auslassungen in den oben
dargebotenen Daten übernehmen. Hinzu kommt, dass die
gesetzlichen
Feiertage in vielen Teilen der Welt arbiträren Änderungen, Änderungen in letzter
Minute und Änderungen der Kommunalbehörde unterliegen, und es ist daher ratsam,
die oben angegebenen Daten mit der Botschaft oder dem Konsulat von USA zu
verifizieren, bevor eine Reise nach USA geplant wird. Sie sollten
zudem auch alle oben aufgeführten Anmerkungen und Fußnoten lesen. |
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