Survey, number of paid holidays

Balloonman1

Just trying to find out, how many paid holidays does your company give?

The Balloonman

gismo

We are a Financial Institution and we follow the Federal Reserve holiday list, when they are closed, so are we. It's around 9 -10 extra days off a year.

Rockie

We give 7 paid holidays.

AnneHa

We have nine standard paid holidays and two floating days.

Anne in Ohio

DeidreFR5

We give 10. Deidre

mushroomHR

10:

New Year's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Indpendence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve.

dchr9203

As a defense contractor, we give 10 and in general follow the federal holiday schedule.

HRinGA

6
New Year's Day
Memorial Day
July 4th
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

Gillian3

6, same as HRinGA. I think that the number of holidays is heavily impacted by the type of industry - some work more during holidays than others.

jitrbug

We have 8 designated by the company plus 2 "optional holidays" the employees can take anytime after pre-approval.

HCCADC

We have 10. Have a good day!

Open1

10

Happy Holidays!

ritamcguire

7. New Years Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

dwms

We're a community blood bank.

New Years Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
(1) day chosen by employee as personal holiday

durasupreme

7 designated holidays, 1 floating holiday determined by employee vote each year, and 1 personal holiday to be scheduled at the employee's discretion each year - Total: 9

Crout

11, which includes...

New Year's Day
Martin Luther King's B-day
President's Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
The Day After Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

There is also an Agency Floating Holiday which changes year to year. It ususally dovetails another holiday, e.g. Friday, July 5. All Union staff also receive a Personal Holiday they schedule with their supervisor. We lost Veteran's Day a few years ago. Since there's less than a handful of us in a company of 450 it didn't really faze anyone.

KathyHR

We have 10 and we're closed on Easter Sunday. When they fall on the weekend (like this year) we have floating holidays.

manyhats

Our company (a non-profit) gives 9 paid holidays each year.

Regular holidays are:
New Year's Day
MLK Birthday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

2 "floating" holidays are:
Presidents' Day
Day after Thanksgiving

An EE may work on the "floating"holiday if a manager is in the office, and take the day later.

Manyhats

System

Balloonman, you must be psychic! In our Holiday survey last month, 2,855 people answered your question:

1-5 holidays 2%
6-8 holidays 36%
9-11 holidays 46%
12 or more 13%
None 0%

There's a bunch of other holiday questions, too, like which holidays are given and how employers pay nonexempts who work holidays.

Login to the Subscribers Area [url]http://www.hrhero.com/img/v3-menu-login.gif[/url] and you'll find survey results in the last column.

You can also narrow down the results, like looking at the responses from private-sector companies in Missouri with 50-200 employees.

James Sokolowski
HRhero.com

Wildsporty

We are in Nampa Idaho

We give six paid holidays a year

New Years Day
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labour Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

We also give one Floating Holiday per year which may be used at any time upon supervisory approval.

Shirley

njjel

I guess we win the prize for the most holidays. We have 13 one of which is a floating holiday.

E Wart

Nine (9) each year. Six are scheduled and all plants are closed, two are set aside for each of the 8 plants to decide which 2 days they want to be closed, and 1 is floating holiday for employees. (We had a good one for 2006. One of our Plants is using one of it's Plant holiday for the Monday after the super bowl! Even though I love football, this sounds stupid to me, but they can do whatever they like.
E Wart

pork1

BALLOONMAN: We have seven (7) a year!

Richard

Melanie

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 12-16-05 AT 07:21AM (CST)[/font][br][br]Actually, so far, my company wins for Holidays. We have 12 assigned holidays and employees also get 2 floating holidays, so 14 total holidays. However, while the holiday package is exceptional, I work for a non-profit, so pay is definitely not the incentive here, the perks like family/work life balance is a major perk.

freyh8

6 - same as HRinGA

neveradull

NEW YEAR'S DAY
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
PRESIDENTS DAY
MEMORIAL DAY
INDEPENDENCE DAY
LABOR DAY
VETERANS’ DAY
THANKSGIVING DAY
DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING
CHRISTMAS DAY
One personal holiday

I find it interesting that so many have eliminated Veterans' Day.

Catbert Evil HR Director

6 set holidays and 2 floaters.
I'm trying to get 7 and 2 for '06.
Liz

Gloria

I work for a Catholic organization that gives us from 17 to 19 Holydays/Holidays depending if a Holyday falls on a weekend:

New Years Day
Martin Luther King
President's Day
St. Patrick's Day
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Feast of the Ascension
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Feast of the Assumption
Labor Day
Columbus Day
All Saints Day
Veteran's Day
Thanksgiving
Day After Thanksgiving
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Christmas Day
Day After Christmas

This year since Christmas falls on a Sunday, we will get the 26th & the 27th off. For the New Year's weekend, we will get Monday, January 2nd.

G

AnneHa

"I find it interesting that so many have eliminated Veterans' Day."

We are a public library. We eliminated Veteran's Day and President's Day as holidays in 1992, closed the library to the public and had an inservice day for staff. Well, the local veteran's group really took issue with it and our board reinstated Veteran's Day and added MLK day as holidays. Darn - they forgot to eliminate the two personal days that were added when President's Day and Veteran's Day were eliminated.


Anne in Ohio

Crout

In our case, there are virtually no veterans in the Bargaining Unit, so they readily traded off Veterans Day for a Floating Hoilday a few years ago.

gimper

9 paid holiday and three "floating holidays" or personal days.