Law firms have a long history of cutting employees a break around the holidays so that they can make the most of their time off. Many of the law firms at which I worked before starting my own practice closed offices early before a holiday weekend so that workers could head home or out of town early to better enjoy their time off.
In addition, if a holiday falls on a weekend, many law firms allow workers to take the following Monday off, so they get to observe a day off regardless of when the holiday occurred. In this same spirit, law firms should give workers Monday, July 3, off so that employees can merge the holiday on Tuesday with the preceding weekend. From my discussions with various lawyers, it seems as if many law firms are not planning on giving workers the day off on Monday, July 3. Employers should reconsider this practice so employees can better enjoy their holiday.
There are a variety of reasons for why employers should feel comfortable about extending the holiday by giving workers the day off on Monday, July 3. Perhaps most importantly, we all know that setting established periods that workers need to be at their desks working is often not needed in the legal profession. The legal industry is governed by a number of metrics that are easy to measure, most notably, the number of billable hours that each attorney and certain administrative staff are able to log in a given year.
So long as workers are able to satisfy expectations around billable hours, employers...
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