Are you off on Martin Luther King Day? If you are, are you paid for it? If you work, do you get extra ("holiday") pay?

No, because that is not a holiday here.

No. Business as usual. The significance for me is in trying to remember that it is a holiday and the implications therein. The positives – no traffic, no parking meter worries. The negatives-banks, post offices, schools are closed. This neans that the prospective criminals in the hoodlum apprenticeship programs at the youth center on the corner will ring my doorbell and run to the point of melting the transformer. Come to think of it, when considering my own past, if ring and run is the worst the little hooligans ever do, I suppose I should be grateful. Besides they give me incentive to live to 150 when people can no longer afford to have children, and anyone so addle minded to have kids anyway, will not possibly have the money to live in this town.

My husband does not have this holiday in the group he gets off and paid for, but employees can take it as a a personal day.

I am self-employed so never have paid holidays. No workie, no pay.

no, yes, and yes.

We used to get it as a Corporate holiday. But we got taken over a couple years ago and our new masters do not consider it a holiday, even though the markets are closed and all our customers are off.

So we get to choose between going into the office or taking a personal day. No one gets holiday pay.

It’s just another regular work day for my husband.

No. It’s not a holiday here either. When is it?

@Earthbound_Misfit: It’s tomorrow, Monday the 18th. (Monday is the 18th, right?)

It’s today then (already the 18th here). Do people do anything on the day? Do people march? Discuss how far (or not so far) the civil rights movement has come? What happens on this day in the US?

It was holiday off, no pay.

@Earthbound_Misfit: I don’t think there are any parades. Some might gather at his memorial. Among people I know, it’s just a day off to make a 3 day weekend, which we’re always appreciative of. We get pay. Under the union contract I work for, if people do work they get double pay plus equivalent hours in comp time off (equivalent hours of vacation time).

Some cities do hold parades.