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I think it's a flex. Make people work on a holiday celebrating workers, and thereby diminish the value and meaning of it to those workers over time.
We have nothing to lose but our chains, fellow associates.
In my experience at big law firms, neither holiday is really protected. The partners who are interested in having the day off will treat it accordingly. Those who are not will treat it like any other work day. It is kind of like a weekend, which is to say that there may be some minimal deterrence to assigning/expecting work, but not much.
In my experience, Christmas and Thanksgiving are really the only respected holidays, and to a somewhat lesser extent July 4th and New Year's. Everything else is fair game.
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I don’t have that impression. But then again, a partner specifically told me to take my birthday off then called me back into the office at 3PM because of a super duper emergency.
Fall is busier. Also, the comparison of associates and “labor” are a little... stretched.
Deadlines are deadlines, sometimes that's just how the cards fall. I've had to work Xmas before. In the long run, most good attorneys can tell if partners are doing this to be, pardon my French, insensitive dicks. If your boss is out in San Trope while you're sacrificing your holidays, it's time to evaluate that situation.
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No day is sacred unless the partners you are working for individually and collectively respect your time. And even then if there is something that needs to get done best believe that they will ruin your family plans over their own. The best thing you can do is find the partners who do value and respect your time and try to migrate your way into working for them. But understand that there are no guarantees. You want holidays off work for the government, public interest, or yourself.
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A day can be sacred until one partner decides it isn’t. The fact that so many partners I work with don’t even check email after 3pm on a Friday but act like you’re a slacker the one Sunday or holiday they decide to work is preposterous. Being out of pocket with no notice you needed to be available is acceptable
I am not sure what your practice area is, but I get the sense that lawyers and firms in general are busier now than they were in May, which may explain the need to ask people to work on the holiday.
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A hypothesis. We start to get much busier in litigation as summer turns to fall. Spring to summer can be a lull as appeal courts slow down lots of attorneys and clients on vacations thru summer etc.