Your companies policy on holiday pay?

[sportage]

Hourly people, what is the company policy at your work place if you work on a holiday?
Time and a half?
Double time?
Flat rate normal pay?
Vacation hours you can take at a later date?

Just wondering...
Here, they "paid" company holiday pay (everyone) for the holiday,
plus time & half if you actually need to come in and work.

12/2008 policy change....

A worker working on a holiday gets time and a half, but...
the company holiday pay (everyone gets) is reduced hour by hour
for each hour you put in.

So... if everyone gets say 8 hours company holiday pay, but you must come in
on that day, you will get time and a half for the 8 hours, BUT your company
holiday pay is reduced by that 8 hours.
You gain 8 hours @ time and a half, and lose your 8 hour company holiday pay.

You end up working 8 hours for basically 50% above your normal salary rate,
compared to someone that did not work, and stayed home earning 8 hours normal salary in holiday pay.

So if Joe gets $100 for one 8 hour company holiday pay in salary,
and Sue has to work, Sue ends up getting $150.
So basically, Sue worked 8 hours and was paid 50% her hourly rate.
Joe gets his regular work week salary (includes company holiday of 8 hours).
Sue's weekly salary is $50 more than Joe's, even though she worked
8 hours on the holiday.
Make sense???
Seems like a scam to me...?

Sue should be, at least, getting a full 8 hours at her ?regular? hourly pay,
above and beyond the company paid holiday, same pay that Joe got
(sitting at home feeding his face).
Make sense???

(like Joan Crawford once said "who ever said that life was fair???") :laugh:

 

[Newbian]

I understand the time and half part but you lost me in the next part.

 

[TallBill]

Not working, and no pay. But I'm just an hourly part time employee.

 

[FDF12389]

1.5x or 2x Depending on the holiday

 

[dawp]

Time and a half plus holiday but you have to work your scheduled day before and after to get the holiday pay.

 

[boomhower]

We get 16.8 hours if you work and 8.4 to sit at the house. That is on top of our regular pay, we work 12 hour shift. So if you work you paid 28.8 hours, so a bit over double time. Yeah, I don't take holidays off. Especially when Christmas is a three day holiday. They way our shifts rotate you can't hit all three days but you can get two, makes a little merrier Christmas.

I actually ended up working a holiday that was overtime, evidently I was the first that had done that, and will be the last as they didn't particularly care to pay that hourly wage once they figured it up.

edit
I work for a local govt.

 

[Kyle]

Paid holiday pay, and can volunteer to work @ 1.5x normal pay on top of holiday pay

 

[Ryan]

The policy is...that there is no policy.

 

[caboob]

double-time and a half for all hours worked (10 hours)

 

[aesthetics]

I understand what you're saying, and it's bullshit.

 

[rudeguy]

My last job paid backwards overtime. So on a week where there was a holiday, if you worked more than 32 hours (plus sat at home on the holiday) you got paid 1/2 your normal rate for the hours worked above 32. The same was true for normal weeks, any hours worked above 40 were paid at 1/2 time.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
My last job paid backwards overtime. So on a week where there was a holiday, if you worked more than 32 hours (plus sat at home on the holiday) you got paid 1/2 your normal rate for the hours worked above 32. The same was true for normal weeks, any hours worked above 40 were paid at 1/2 time.

I don't see how that's legal.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: caboob
double-time and a half for all hours worked (10 hours)

This is how it should be. If you're getting punished for working (your holiday pay is reduced) that is bullshit.

 

[Turin39789]

We get holiday pay plus time and a half.


Used to work at a call center as a temp employee, The regular employees got holiday pay+ time and a half for working a holiday, temps go straight pay and no holiday pay.

 

[XZeroII]

You suck at complaining. You're getting 1.5 your normal pay. If you don't like it, don't go to work on that day or quit and find a place that is dumber than your current employer.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: rudeguy
My last job paid backwards overtime. So on a week where there was a holiday, if you worked more than 32 hours (plus sat at home on the holiday) you got paid 1/2 your normal rate for the hours worked above 32. The same was true for normal weeks, any hours worked above 40 were paid at 1/2 time.

I don't see how that's legal.

Because we were technically salaried even though we got paid hourly. I called the Wage and Hour board a couple times...there is some loophole that they found.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
You suck at complaining. You're getting 1.5 your normal pay. If you don't like it, don't go to work on that day or quit and find a place that is dumber than your current employer.

Wrong. Normal compensation package includes payment for 8 hours at the normal rate of pay on the holiday. So if you work that day, you are only being paid half of your normal rate because the other 8 hours are already owed to you without working.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: XZeroII
You suck at complaining. You're getting 1.5 your normal pay. If you don't like it, don't go to work on that day or quit and find a place that is dumber than your current employer.

Wrong. Normal compensation package includes payment for 8 hours at the normal rate of pay on the holiday. So if you work that day, you are only being paid half of your normal rate because the other 8 hours are already owed to you without working.

YOu not paid half your normal rate. You are paid 1.5 times your normal rate. According to the OP, a normal rate is $100 but if you work on a holiday you get $150. The extra $50 is compensation for working on a holiday.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: XZeroII
You suck at complaining. You're getting 1.5 your normal pay. If you don't like it, don't go to work on that day or quit and find a place that is dumber than your current employer.

Wrong. Normal compensation package includes payment for 8 hours at the normal rate of pay on the holiday. So if you work that day, you are only being paid half of your normal rate because the other 8 hours are already owed to you without working.

YOu not paid half your normal rate. You are paid 1.5 times your normal rate. According to the OP, a normal rate is $100 but if you work on a holiday you get $150. The extra $50 is compensation for working on a holiday.

Do you understand that people not working that day also get paid that $100? It is holiday pay included in your salary. So the only additional benefit you get for working is half of your normal rate of pay, the other money you are already owed.

If you understand that then we just disagree.

 

[BoomerD]

Xzero must be some kind of corporate communist or something...

OP, working construction, you didn't get paid a dime for the holiday if you didn't work, but you got double time for all hours you did work (with 4 and 8 hour guarantees)

I spent 7 years working for a local electical utility and the policy was 8 hours of holiday pay if you stayed home, or if you worked, you got that 8 hours of holiday pay PLUS time & a half for any hours worked. (if you went over 8, you only got time & a half.

Since there are no laws making holiday pay a requirement, no one HAS to be paid anything over their regular rate of pay...but MOST places do to keep their employees. (yet another benefit working Americans can thank the unions for)

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: XZeroII
You suck at complaining. You're getting 1.5 your normal pay. If you don't like it, don't go to work on that day or quit and find a place that is dumber than your current employer.

Wrong. Normal compensation package includes payment for 8 hours at the normal rate of pay on the holiday. So if you work that day, you are only being paid half of your normal rate because the other 8 hours are already owed to you without working.

YOu not paid half your normal rate. You are paid 1.5 times your normal rate. According to the OP, a normal rate is $100 but if you work on a holiday you get $150. The extra $50 is compensation for working on a holiday.

Do you understand that people not working that day also get paid that $100? It is holiday pay included in your salary. So the only additional benefit you get for working is half of your normal rate of pay, the other money you are already owed.

If you understand that then we just disagree.

we disagree.

 

[kranky]

XZeroII, I think you're misunderstanding. This is clearly an unfair system.

The person making $15/hour who gets the day off gets a paid holiday (that's $120). If that person has to work, he gets 1.5x regular pay ONLY ($180). Clearly, the guy who has to work only gets $60 for the day - which is half the regular pay.

Stay home = $120.
Work = $180.
No matter how you look at it, that's $60 for a day's work - that's only half pay.

Now, if the company provided a substitute paid holiday for people who have to work, that would be a different story.

 

[BarneyFife]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Farang

Originally posted by: XZeroII
You suck at complaining. You're getting 1.5 your normal pay. If you don't like it, don't go to work on that day or quit and find a place that is dumber than your current employer.

Wrong. Normal compensation package includes payment for 8 hours at the normal rate of pay on the holiday. So if you work that day, you are only being paid half of your normal rate because the other 8 hours are already owed to you without working.

YOu not paid half your normal rate. You are paid 1.5 times your normal rate. According to the OP, a normal rate is $100 but if you work on a holiday you get $150. The extra $50 is compensation for working on a holiday.

Do you understand that people not working that day also get paid that $100? It is holiday pay included in your salary. So the only additional benefit you get for working is half of your normal rate of pay, the other money you are already owed.

If you understand that then we just disagree.

we disagree.

You're just a moron.

 

[Rage187]

8 hours regular pay and another day off. I get to work from home and I usually don't get any calls except from some canadian clients.

 

[rudder]

I am not paid to be on call... so unless someone drives to my home and my wife lets them in... they won't be able to find or contact me to tell me to come in to work.