Your Guide to July Employee Holiday Celebrations
One of the best ways to avoid needless employment law disputes is to stay in touch with what your employees are thinking, feeling and doing. As part of our never-ending quest to keep you up-to-speed on the latest developments affecting your workplace, the following is our guide to holidays/celebrations your employees might be observing this month.
Just to make sure you’re paying attention, I have included one made-up day on our list. The rest are very real. The first person to send an email to blawg@manpower.com identifying the made-up day will win a valuable prize.
Month-long Celebrations
- International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
- Air Conditioner Appreciation Days
- National Doghouse Repairs Month
- National Grilling Month
Weekly Celebrations
- International Chicken Wing Week (5-7)
- Be Nice to New Jersey Week (6-12)
- Nude Recreation Week (6-13)
- Rabbit Week (15-21)
- National Make Someone Smile Week (20-26)
Daily Observances
- International Joke Day (1)
- Second Half of the Year Day (1)
- Canada Day (1)
- Praise a Postal Worker Day (1)
- I Forgot Day (2)
- Compliment Your Mirror Day (3)
- Stay Out of the Sun Day (3)
- Independence Day (4)
- Independence from Meat Day (4)
- Workaholic’s Day (5)
- Cherry Pit Spitting Day (5)
- Chocolate Day (7)
- Video Games Day (8)
- Blonde Day (9)
- Don’t Step on a Bee Day (10)
- National Pina Colada Day (10)
- Chicken Day (11)
- Cheer Up the Lonely Day (11)
- Hot Dog Day (12)
- Embrace Your Geekness Day (13)
- Gruntled Workers Day (13)
- Bastille Day (14)
- International Town Criers Day (14)
- Baby Food Day (15)
- Gummi Worm Day (15)
- Respect Canada Day (15)
- Toss Away the “Could Haves” and “Should Haves” Day (19)
- National Ice Cream Day (20)
- National Lollipop Day (20)
- Cow Appreciation Day (21)
- National Get out of the Doghouse Day (21)
- Rat-catchers Day (22)
- Gorgeous Grandma Day (23)
- Coffee Day (24)
- National Drive-thru Day (24)
- Act Like a Caveman Day (25)
- National Cowboy Day (26)
- Take Your Plants for a Walk Day (27)
- Hula Hoop Day (27)
- Walk on Stilts Day (27)
- Singing Telegram Day (28)
- Accountant’s Day (28)
- Rain Day (29)
- Bring Your Unemployed Relatives to Work Day (30)
What this means for employers. If your employees suddenly start coming to work nude, saying nice things about New Jersey, acting unusually “gruntled,” bringing bunnies and cows to the office, taking their plants for a walk, yelling “the British are coming,” acting like cavemen, embracing their geekiness, hugging postal workers, Canadians and accountants, grilling hot dogs and chicken wings in their cubes, holding cherry-pit-spitting contests, heaping undue amounts of appreciation on the company’s air conditioner units, playing Call of Duty instead of conducting mid-year evaluations, dying their hair blonde while singing “The Tide is High” and/or guzzling ice cream, chocolate, baby food, gummi worms, lollipops, coffee and pina coladas, now you know why.
Enjoy the month!
(Sources: holidaysmart.com, emotionscards.com, brownielocks.com)













