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Does it save money for state offices to be open the day after Thanksgiving?
Posted: 11.09.2011 at 1:50 PM
Meghan Lane

Meghan is a Live at Sunrise anchor.

Read more:  State, Politics, Business, State Workers, Day after Thanksgiving, Employees, Workers, Black Friday, Vacation Day, Governor Jay Nixon, State Offices Open Day after Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving Employees

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State offices will be open the day after Thanksgiving for the second year in a row. Does it really save the state more money for people to work that day?
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Does working the day after Thanksgiving save the state money? That's the question many of our viewers and Facebook fans wanted us to ask the Governor's office, after Gov. Nixon decided for the second straight year not to sign the proclamation declaring it a holiday.

For several years, Missouri's Governors signed executive orders giving state employees the day after Thanksgiving off. Some of those state employees even told KRCG that in the 1990s they were told it was to save money.

But last year, for the first time in two decades, Gov. Jay Nixon did not sign the proclamation, saying it saved the state more in overtime costs to keep state offices open.

Tonight at 10, KRCG talks to officials in Gov. Nixon's office to find out just how much is saved.

If you work for the state, do you plan to take a vacation day for the day after Thanksgiving? How much work gets done on a day when most people are off? What are the negatives to keeping state offices open that Friday?
You tell us ...
Should state offices be open the day after Thanksgiving?

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