The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to enact Juneteenth as a permanent paid vacation for city employees. It’s been a year since then-Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the proclamation creating the holiday.

Juneteenth celebrates the abolition of slavery in the United States. The holiday commemorates two months after the end of the Civil War and two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and brought the tidings of freedom to black slaves on June 1865. It commemorates the events of the 19th.

President Biden signed into law making Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021.

Garcetti’s 2022 resolution comes two years after Rep. Karen D. Price and Marquese Harris-Dawson and former Rep. Herb J. Wesson. introduced a proposal Consider making Juneteenth a city holiday in July 2020.

Two votes taken by the city council on Friday dealt with details of holiday rules for employers with tens of thousands of employees.

One vote would amend the Los Angeles Administrative Code to add Juneteenth as a holiday for “unrepresented” employees, i.e. employees who do not have a union bargaining agreement with the city.

The city council also voted to approve a contract amendment to make June 1 a worker’s holiday in agreements with about 20 unions representing city employees.

“We have negotiated with all unions to make it a permanent city-wide holiday,” said Matt Szabo, the city’s executive director on Friday.

The holiday falls on June 19th every year, but if June 19th falls on a weekend, it will be fixed on Friday or Monday as stipulated in administrative law or individual collective agreements.

According to an email sent to city employees by Dana H. Brown, general manager of the city’s human resources department, employees who work on holidays “shall be compensated in accordance with the provisions of the memorandum.”