What are floating holidays?

[Gunslinger08]

I have no idea what the term "floating holiday" means. Apparently January 2nd is one. Anyone know?

 

[spherrod]

because it would normally be January 1st but as it falls on a Sunday, it's moved? That's the only explanation I can think of.

 

[Doodoo]

Our floaters are basically 2 days that we can use whenever we want...except for adding on to other holidays. I think we have them due to not having off for certain holidays due to different religions.

 

[Kelemvor]

Basically they are extra Personal/Vacation days because a day that is normally a Holiday falls on a day that the company is closed anyway so you get to take the day later.

Let's say the 4th of July is on a Saturday. Some comanies jsut giv eyou Friday off isntead and others would not giv eyou Friday off and giv eyou a floating day to take some other time.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Originally posted by: Doodoo
Our floaters are basically 2 days that we can use whenever we want...except for adding on to other holidays. I think we have them due to not having off for certain holidays due to different religions.

This is how it is for me. Unions get ridiculous days like columbus day, so they give us management types a couple floaters to use as personal days.

 

[ZoomStop]

same here, except we work Customer Service. So Customer Service works a lot of days that the rest of the company is closed (like the week between Christmas an New Years 🙁)
So for every day we work that the rest of the company is closed we get a floating holiday (got 6 this year).

One thing to keep in mind (here at least) is while you can take a vacation day and split is and use half a day here, two hours there, you cannot do that with a floater. In other words use the floaters for full planned days off before getting into your vacation time.

 

[FoBoT]

for us, they are just more vacation days
use them anytime to take a day off

instead of making you take the day off on a certain day, the time "floats" to whenever you want to use it