State offices will be closed Monday for Cesar Chavez Day, but Los Angeles city and county offices will be open because those jurisdictions observed the holiday honoring the late labor leader last Monday.
Los Angeles Superior Court courtrooms will be closed Monday, as well as state offices such as the Department of Motor Vehicles. Los Angeles Unified School District schools will also be closed.
Banks, Metrolink trains and trash pickup will follow regular schedules.
There will be mail delivery because Cesar Chavez Day is a federal commemorative holiday, first proclaimed by then-President Barack Obama in 2014, and not a federal holiday.
Then-Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation in 2000 making the March 31 anniversary of Chávez’s birth in 1927 a state holiday. When March 31 falls on a Sunday, as it does this year, the holiday is observed on the following Monday.
Chávez is credited with improving work and quality of life conditions for immigrant farm workers in Central California. Alongside Dolores Hureta he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers Union.