Shopping on Black Friday? Not if you're a NJ state employee

If you're a state employee in New Jersey or 17 other states, you're expected to be at work on Friday morning. In Colorado, state workers can choose to take one day off from the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve, so long as all offices state open on those days. A spokesman for the Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration says that "citizens expect to have their state employees working for them, and we work hard to make sure that their needs are met." While not officially a state holiday in Arkansas, Governor Beebe signed an executive order giving state employees Friday off.

Here's the Arkansas proclamation.