Nike, the NFL and other businesses will give their employees a day off for Juneteenth for the first time this year, the latest example of how American employers are responding to protests that have placed additional attention on racial injustice in the U.S.
This week, Nike CEO John Donahoe told workers they would get Juneteenth off starting this year as a way to celebrate Black culture and history.
“Our expectation is that each of us use this time to continue to educate ourselves and challenge our perspectives and learn,” Donahoe wrote in a memo. “I know that is what I intend to do.”that the league was wrong to not listen to football players who have protested police brutality on the field since 2016, wrote in a note Friday that its offices would be closed June 19.“The power of this historical feat in our country’s blemished history is felt each year,” Goodell wrote in a memo.
After getting feedback from Black employees, the New York Times said it would give employees an additional day off and encouraged them to use it on June 19. Earlier this week, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that U.S. employees would have Juneteenth off “forevermore” as a day for “celebration, education, and connection.” Dorsey said employees at Square, the mobile payments services company he also runs, would get the day off, too.Get our Boiling Point newsletter for the latest on the power sector, water wars and more — and what they mean for California.
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