Thanksgiving and Christmas Day - Permits
To: All Massachusetts Chiefs of Police
The Police Commissioner of the City of Boston
From: Laura M. Marlin, Commissioner
Division of Occupational Safety, Department of Labor
Date: August 24th, 2009
Re: Thanksgiving and Christmas Day – Permits
The Department of Labor must approve all local permits for retail stores and businesses to open on certain holidays, including Thanksgiving, November 26, 2009, and Christmas Day, December 25, 2009. Permits must be approved by the Department on a uniform basis statewide. See Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 136, §15.
Please be advised that the Department of Labor will not be issuing statewide approval for permits to open on either of these days. Therefore, no local permits to open may be issued, and most retail stores and businesses must be closed for these holidays.
For further information, please download our Blue Laws Guide from our website at www.mass.gov/dos/bluelaw.