Twitter Makes Juneteenth A Permanent Company Holiday

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As corporate leaders reckon with how to combat racism in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter will make Juneteenth a companywide holiday by rachsandl

As corporate leaders reckon with how to combat racism and support black employees in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Tuesday that Twitter will make Juneteenth a companywide holiday.... [+]Dorsey said that both Twitter and payments startup Square, where Dorsey is also CEO, will now designate Juneteenth as a holiday for U.S. employees.

Dorsey noted that other “countries and regions around the world have their own days to celebrate emancipation, and we will do the work to make those dates company holidays everywhere we are present.”the end of slavery in the U.S., but it isn’t an official national holiday and corporate America hasn’t typically given employees that day off.that Juneteenth should be designated a national holiday in a reply to a Twitter user on his original announcement.

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