move to four day work week

dbrewer

We have opted to move to a 4 day work week 10hours per dayMonday through Thursday All employees are receptive and love the idea.

We currently have 6 paid annual Holidays. As a small company we can not afford to have employees take Holiday days off that fall within our 4 days of operation. Any suggestions as how to handle if a Holiday falls on a Sunday, which would have ment taking Monday off?

NaeNae55

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 02-27-08 AT 03:11PM (CST)[/font][br][br]Are you saying you cannot afford to close on a Monday due to a holiday? If so, what did you do before you went to a 4 day workweek? Why is it a problem now?

OR

Are you saying you cannot afford to pay 10 hours of holiday pay instead of 8? If so, only pay 8 and the other 2 hours are PTO. I have seen this in several situations where employees go to a 4 day workweek. They are told up front that they get the same time for holidays as before, 8 hours.


Nae

ray a

I'm with Nae, I don't quite understand the question. What will you do if the holiday falls on a Tuesday, for example? Make them work and take another day off?

ritaanz

We also work a 10 hour, 4 day work week. If a holiday falls on a Monday, and several do, we close and pay 10 hours holiday pay.

However, there are companies that will revert toa 5 day, 8 hour day on the week of the holiday. This way they get their 32 hours in and pay 8 hours for the holiday.

I f you want to get 40 hours of work in, then maybe consider working Tuesday to Friday instead.

Or, maybe I did not understand your question.

dbrewer

did not mean to leave so much up in the air with this question.
Thank you to all who replied, you have been a help

Dutch2

We have a few ee's that work 4 -10 hr days. Our policy is to pay holiday pay based on the number of hours the ee was scheduled to work that day. If their scheduled work day falls on a holiday, they receive 10 hrs holiday pay, if the holiday falls on a day they are not scheduled to work, they are not paid holiday pay as their pay for the week was not reduced due to the holiday closure.
Good luck.

allsteaks

This may be a unique thought (because we don't do it and we have a 4 day week): instead of working Monday thru Thursday, schedule Tuesday thru Friday! That eliminates all the Monday holidays. A few will still catch you but it takes care of Monday.