Holiday Pay
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First time posting, however, I've been browser of the forum.
Scenario: Non-Exempt EE works four 10 hour days (M,T,W,R) during the Thanksgiving holiday which we, by policy, provide Thanksgiving day and the day after off with pay. These EE work 10 hours per day, turn in 10 hours of vacation or sick for each day they are off.
So, the EE works M,T,W for a total of 30 hours (three 10 hour days) and the ER provides them 10 hour holiday for Thanksgiving day (40 hours for the week) and then less than 10 hours for the day after, say 8 hours (48 hours for the week).
Question: Can the ER choose to pay them a different number of hours for a holiday (10 vs 8)because the holiday happens to be on a regularly scheduled day off? Is this a ER policy decision or are there laws governing how this practice should be?
Any response and guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and have a great day!
Kevin B.
Scenario: Non-Exempt EE works four 10 hour days (M,T,W,R) during the Thanksgiving holiday which we, by policy, provide Thanksgiving day and the day after off with pay. These EE work 10 hours per day, turn in 10 hours of vacation or sick for each day they are off.
So, the EE works M,T,W for a total of 30 hours (three 10 hour days) and the ER provides them 10 hour holiday for Thanksgiving day (40 hours for the week) and then less than 10 hours for the day after, say 8 hours (48 hours for the week).
Question: Can the ER choose to pay them a different number of hours for a holiday (10 vs 8)because the holiday happens to be on a regularly scheduled day off? Is this a ER policy decision or are there laws governing how this practice should be?
Any response and guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and have a great day!
Kevin B.
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To cover yourself and the company, you should have these policies/procedures in writing so you can be consistent.
BTW, I visit your fair city at least once if not twice a year for the races. Always have a great time.
Something that I've heard of but not personally seen is having a bank of X hours for holiday pay, then allowing people to use them as they wish for holidays - i.e. they could "declare" 8 or 10 hours. Of course, they must be responsible enough to "declare" it in whatever fashion so as to not drive your payroll people nuts having to track people down.
Good luck, and welcome to the forum!
PS - you could also try searching the forum for other opinions - I'd probably look under Benefits, Wage and Hour, and HR Documents. Let me know if you'd like help doing that.
However, if you have employees who work an alternate schedule, you should probably look at the beginning of each year and what this schedule works and what the holiday would be if they are paid their regular hours for days office closed for holiday. Add these totals for the year. They should have the same number of holiday hours as an 8-5 person. We have a couple of people on an alternate schedule. They end up having some "floating holiday" time since they don't "use up" the total number of holiday hours when you look at their schedule. (I know what I am trying to say, but difficult to explain.)
E Wart
You say your going to have 9 paid holidays. If you have crews that work 8, and 12 hours, the 8 hour crew is getting screwed on actual hours paid. So, 9 x 8 = 72 hours so you would want to make adjustments with the 12 hr. EEs so they also would have 72 hours of actual paid time or vice versa.
We are working through that right now and may do something like giving floating days so that the actual paid time is consistent.
KB
Merry Christmas!