After closing on Thursday for Thanksgiving, the University of Wisconsin-Madison also will be shut down Friday as a state-mandated furlough day for most of the schoolâ??s employees. This unpaid day off is one of eight required of state workers in each of the next two years of the 2009-11 budget cycle. Each year, four of those off days for UW-Madison employees are designated as campus-wide furlough days. Workers have much more leeway in deciding when to take the other four days off.
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