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Post by hop2 on Jul 19, 2014 23:58:37 GMT
Well the Easter Sunday thing doesn't surprise me, my husband works for a very large company and they do not pay for Easter Sunday if you work m-f. You would get holiday pay though if you had to work it.
Yes companies can pretty much make their win holiday policy but it should be written and consistent. For instance DH gets
New Years Christmas Memorial Day July 4th Labor Day Thanksgiving And 4 'floating' holidays. ( for other religious holidays ) If a holiday falls on sat you get fri off. If the holiday falls on sun you get Monday off. It's consistent across the board. I've never worked for a company that paid for easter if you didn't work.
I work part time so no paid holidays but it's pretty much the same ones I would get off if I did.
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Post by mightyme on Jul 19, 2014 23:58:46 GMT
It sounds like you're more of a part time employee as far as hours go? Then I can understand not getting all the paid holidays. It was the fact that my day off was Friday, that I didn't get paid. We're all "part-time" now that we've been put on 4 day work weeks. The other 4-day employees got it because they normally work Friday. But one of the questions was IS there a set law/rule about who should get paid and who shouldn't and it's becoming clear that it's ok for each employer to make their own policy. That's fine. I don't plan on bringing this up w/them, as I like my job and was just curious if this is legal. No they dont even have to pay you for holidays. I see nothing wrong with what they did.
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Post by lucyg on Jul 20, 2014 0:01:19 GMT
I forgot to say, Easter isn't usually a paid holiday. It's not a legal holiday. When I worked as a union waitress with lots of time-and-a-half holidays, Easter wasn't one of them.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 20, 2014 0:25:57 GMT
I don't think they have to pay for holidays that aren't worked. If you aren't union, it's a gift. Chamadog sounds like she knows what she's talking about, so listen to her.
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Post by MsChiff on Jul 20, 2014 0:50:23 GMT
While they may not have to pay you for the holiday, I think it sucks that they didn't. Your co-worker got 4 days' pay for working 3 days and you got 4 days' pay for working 4 days. Lucky for you there aren't many Friday holidays.
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Post by calgal08 on Jul 20, 2014 1:02:50 GMT
I'm also in CA and my last job I worked Monday - Thursday (paid hourly). If a holiday landed on a Friday then I didn't get paid, but if it landed on a Monday (and let's face it, most holidays are a Monday) I would get paid. Really, the only regular Friday holiday is the day after Thanksgiving. Christmas & July 4th change from year to year - in which case, some years you win and others you lose. Overall, I think for you having Friday as your day off is the best deal in the entire company. Just think, every Monday holiday you get a 4-day-weekend :-)
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Jul 20, 2014 1:17:19 GMT
My job is closed 3 days a year, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. If you work full time and would normally work the day the holiday falls on, you get holiday pay. Otherwise you do not. Out of approximately 75 employees, 5 are full time, so not much holiday pay going out.
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Post by back to *pea*ality on Jul 20, 2014 2:09:51 GMT
I work for a family and there are two employees. We both work part time and I work on specific days her schedule is more flexible around her kids schedule (that's her deal, my kid is in college).
I am off on Friday's, this year the 4th fell on Friday. I don't expect another day off as I am paid for holiday's. This family is generous in pay/benefits and if I need additional time off they would grant it. So I am not going to nickel and dime them about holiday's that fall on a day I don't work.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2014 2:14:09 GMT
Work...get paid. Don't work...don't get paid.
There's a flip side to being a small independently owned company who can make their own rules. Dh has been with the same company for 16 years...when I broke my knee, he was off work for three weeks. They chose to continue to pay him even though he's straight commission/independent contractor while he was home taking care of me.
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Post by Tamhugh on Jul 20, 2014 2:54:16 GMT
I work for our school district as a para. We are the only employee group that does not have a union, so we are the only ones who do not get any paid holidays.
My second job is for a large amusement corporation. We are open on holidays and we receive our normal hourly rate for the day.
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Post by Really Red on Jul 20, 2014 12:26:30 GMT
I work 4 days a week by choice. When the holiday falls on a Monday (my scheduled day off), I don't work on Tuesday. To me, you should have taken the Thursday before July 4 off as YOUR holiday.
I think this is something you should clarify with your bosses. You should ALL have an exact set number of holidays and you should all get the same amount if you are FTEs.
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Post by scrapaddie on Jul 20, 2014 12:36:17 GMT
Well, when I worked for a small business, I worked on holidays, including Christmas and Easter.. Just like any other day..., with no extra pay...
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Post by mallie on Jul 20, 2014 13:27:10 GMT
When I worked for a family-owned business, we did not get paid for any holidays. If a holiday fell on a work day and the business closed for the holiday, the your paycheck was short that week. One of the many reasons I no longer work for them.
That said, I don't get why you would get paid for a holiday if you do not normally wor k that day.
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Post by littlemama on Jul 20, 2014 13:44:48 GMT
Usually holidays are paid to employees who are scheduled to work that day, but are given the day off, so I think your employer was correct. Friday is not your day to work. You work 32 hours, you were paid 32 hours for the week. Coworker worked 24 hours, had Friday as a mandatory day off and was paid for it to give her 32 hours.
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Post by ihaveonly1l on Jul 20, 2014 14:22:17 GMT
I think if you would have been paid for the day you didn't work, they would have to pay the other person an extra day. You would have received 5 days pay and she would have only got four. Did you get paid for Memorial Day? Will you be paid for Labor Day? Maybe they think it's one of those things that "works itself out"
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Post by Heart on Jul 20, 2014 14:29:41 GMT
We own a small business. We pay for holidays that fall on regularly scheduled work days, so we pay 4th of July, Christmas if it's on a weekday, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, etc but have never paid Easter because we're closed on Sundays. I do think the way your boss handled it was bad for employee relations, but not necessarily wrong. While I wouldn't do it, I can understand why he did. The day off cut into her budgeted amount of work hours, but not into yours. I imagine he did the same thing in reverse last year when Christmas was on a Wednesday? However, I would be furious as an employer to learn that you were discussing your pay with another employee. In our company, that's grounds for dismissal. Just to let you know, it is illegal to terminate employees for discussing pay in many states.
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Post by kristalina on Jul 20, 2014 16:11:55 GMT
I think if you would have been paid for the day you didn't work, they would have to pay the other person an extra day. You would have received 5 days pay and she would have only got four. Did you get paid for Memorial Day? Will you be paid for Labor Day? Maybe they think it's one of those things that "works itself out"
Both are paid days off. My employer is pretty generous with holidays and I guess in my mind too, they do kind of work out. I've been there 24 years and this is not something I'm ruffled about. I do like my work situation, I just wondered how it was handled in other small, family-owned businesses.
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