The measure sprang from a recommendation by the company's recently-announced social justice task force. Universal Music Group is making voting easier for its U.S.
employees by making Election Day 2020, Nov. 3, a paid company holiday. The company announced the news to staffers in an internal memo Friday (July 17) and obtained by Billboard. “After all, the right to vote is the very foundation of democracy -- perhaps of freedom itself,” reads the memo, which notes that only 56% of eligible U.S.
voters cast a ballot in the 2016 presidential election. “As Americans, we have fought long and hard to win the right to vote.
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