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Holidays & Exempt

GLCGLC 174 Posts
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Does a company have to pay Exempt staff for holiday pay, when it does not offer it to Non-Exempt staff?
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  • stilldazedstilldazed 640 Posts
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    Exempt staff are paid a salaried $$ amount for a work week. Whether a holiday or 2 happens to fall within the work week doesn't change their salaried pay basis. Does that answer your question?

    If you are offering an extra holiday bonus-type compensation for having someone work a holiday, your company will establish the criteria. In setting the criteria, if you decide to offer it only to exempt staff who come in on a day they would otherwise not work, that's your prerogative. A consideration in establishing the 'bonus' (if that is what you are talking about) is whether the holiday is a regular workday for nonexempt staff. If it is and they are working a regularly scheduled work day, pay them their typical wage (again unless your company decides to be generous and offer them something extra for helping cover the work hours.

    Knowing whether your organization is a 24/7 operation and typically open or closed for business on holidays would be helpful.

    Our organization offers some shift differentials to nonexempt staff who are willing to help cover shifts that are especially difficult to cover (we are 24/7). The differential is only available to nonexempt, only for the shifts we have identified, and only for the positions that we actually need during those shifts. I throw that out there because your question sounds to me as if you are entertaining that type of option, except that you would offer it to exempt staff and the shift in question is a holiday.

    Does that help you out any?
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