Officials in Washington didn't want a repeat of 2011, when a rush-hour snowstorm stranded commuters for hours, so they told people to stay off the roads and gave workers the day off.
Thailand, and Singapore approved measures to give domestic workers a weekly day off, while Venezuela and the Philippines adopted broad laws for domestic workers ensuring a minimum wage, paid holidays, and limits to their working hours.
About one in five workers took the day off and thousands of schools in the south of England closed.
But there are already plans for defence workers to take one day off a week without pay.
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The festival screenings were all packed out, with some workers even getting a day off to attend.
One-third of workers have taken a day off when they weren't really sick, according to a survey of more than 6, 800 employees conducted by CareerBuilder.com.
Ltd. gave a day's off to workers at their manufacturing facilities in the Gurgaon-Manesar, a New Delhi neighborhood which has seen recent violent worker problems.
Bogart says most employers asked workers to tell them if they planned to take the day off, and he says he did not get a single panicked phone call from growers.
Likewise, many office workers could avoid a drop in productivity by anticipating the extra day off, working overtime to compensate for the lost shift.
The Pentagon has also sounded the alarm, having already begun cutting 46, 000 temporary workers and saying it will force staff to take one unpaid day off per week starting in April.
The European Working Time Directive requires that workers in all occupations have at least 11 hours off duty each day, and limits shifts to 13 hours.
To this day there's still the perception that workers who need time off to care for a sick parent, or who want a more flexible schedule so they can go to the potluck or the play or the parent-teacher conference, are somehow less committed or less desirable.
Currently, workers for Anglesey County Council are the only local authority staff given a day off to celebrate the life of St David.
Earlier this year workers in Lancashire voted to lose a day's pay each month to stave off redundancies.
Notice is required if, in a 30-day-period, a company lays off either 500 or more workers in one location or 50 or more workers making up at least a third of the workforce in a single location.
Thursday's report comes one day after Ford Motor announced it would lay off as many as 2, 000 workers.
These workers were successfully fending off the vast majority of the millions of attacks aimed at military networks every day, he added.
The day started out with the announcement that Bank of America would be laying off 16, 000 workers which helped sink the market, but better than expected jobless claims and a Philly Fed index that came in ahead of the consensus estimate, along with a solid IPO pop for real estate research site Trulia, aided the recovery in risk assets.
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