USA: Day After Thanksgiving
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Affected country
USA
Affected public holiday
The Day After Thanksgiving
Source of the information
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/day-after-thanksgiving
More information
I am not from the USA, so I don't know the exact rules on this, but I found multiple sources claiming this is celebrated as a public holiday in 22 states. In 20 of them, it's called "Day After Thanksgiving", in Louisiana it's "Acadian Day" and in Nevada it's a "Family Day".
Colleagues from California confirmed they don't work on this day.
So according to my research, it's not really a public holiday that it's up to the companies whether they release it or not.
The situation looks to be quite messy in the US. I got a list of holidays our company supports and half the federal holidays are not on the list, but there are a few extra ones.
As far as I'm concerned, you can close the issue without adding this holiday. That would be the consistent thing as well.