Vacation, Hourly, OT, and Plant Shut Downs

Kevbob · July 2002

4th of July week our manufacturing plant shut down for 3 days. We required all personel that had vacation time to use it for 3 days and we had the 4th and the 5th as holidays. I had to call in a maintenance employee to work for 5 hours on the first day of shut down. Our manual states that if called in you wil be paid at least 4 hrs no matter what. This employee was hourly. How should he be paid? 5 regular,19 vacation,16 holiday or 5 OT 24 vacation, 16 holiday

HR in PA · July 2002

The FLSA does not require you to pay overtime on holiday or vacation pay. It is on hours worked.

System · July 2002

If it didn't send him over 40 hours, just follow your company policy. (That probably didn't help you too much.)

James Sokolowski
Senior Editor
M. Lee Smith Publishers

Carol CA · July 2002

I would pay the 5 regular and 19 vacation. He got the benefit of being able to work and save his vacation pay where others were required to use all 24 hours of vacation or go unpaid.

If he worked on the holiday, I would probably rule differently. We have a policy of paying our employees the holiday pay plus time and a half for any hours they have to work on a holiday.

Vacation, Hourly, OT, and Plant Shut Downs

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