Employees Upset After Emory Healthcare Nixes Christmas Eve As Paid Holiday, Replaces it with Juneteenth
Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia took away Christmas Eve as a paid holiday and replaced it with Juneteenth instead. Dr. Joon Lee, CEO of Emory, said that “to minimize impact to patient care, we will not be adding another paid holiday to our calendar.” So he traded it out instead.
Dr. Joon Lee, the CEO of Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia, notified employees that the company would no longer offer holiday pay for Christmas Eve because it was adding Juneteenth to the holiday calendar starting in 2024.
In a statement, Lee said the executive leadership team decided to make Juneteenth an observed holiday, however, he added that “to minimize impact to patient care,
