This post is to solicit your opinions regarding Holidays and employees. Holidays are considered fringe in the state of Alaska. We do not have to consider them anything other than an ordinary workday and pay an employee straight time for time worked on that day.
It is my personal opinion that offering some sort of compensation is the least we can do for those who have no choice at times, but to work holidays. These are questions I am pondering:
If they work the holiday – do they get the hours they worked added to their leave time?
Do they get to trade those hours in for a day of their choosing?
If they don’t work the holiday, do they still get paid for it?
If they terminate the employee relationship or are terminated – do they receive the day compensated in pay? or compensated in leave?
Who does this apply to? all FYA employees – exempt, non- exempt, whether they work it or not?
There are probably a few questions here I have not thought of – but if you have opinions – please feel welcome to share. I have already talked to Wage and Hour folks. They said – whatever we decide we just need to be clear etc.
These are the holidays we are considering:
New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day
I feel:
all employees should receive the same holiday benefit.
Hospital employees do not get the day after TD as a holiday option (in addition to TD), but the school district did have the day after off, too..those are the only two employer options I have to go by.
The rest of the list of holidays looks agreeable. If the holiday lands on the person’s usual day off, then s/he would get an extra day option at another time. (straight time) If s/he works the day then time and a half would be good (our budget can handle it?)
Holidays are not automatically given to people who leave-but, if these are included in the PTO bundle then I feel it is their nest egg and prorated as to when they terminate.
Seems like some jobs give back PTO at a prorated basis (or a percent) or if you aren’t here for TD, you don’t get it as a termination last check.
Hmm, I think that’s all I have to offer. Hope that is helpful.