Vacation Days

[Guest pentex]

If an office has an early closing, for example if you close at 1:00 on Christmas Eve, do you charge employees 1/2 day vacation or a full day vacation if they are out that day? We've always done a full day because of the reason most of our employees are exempt, and with exempt employees, we believed it wasn't proper to "hours count". Were we correct? What does your company do?

[Sheila K]

Although we are called "too nice" by other employers (!), we pay our employees 4 hours of holiday pay for these types of half days.

Non-exempt employees are paid 4 hrs of holiday pay PLUS whatever hours they actually work that day.

Exempt employees are paid 4 hrs of holiday pay PLUS 4 regular hours to make their 8 hr day.

I would assume that if you aren't paying holiday pay, you would use a similar breakdown for your exempt folk, substituting vacation for holiday pay.

If any of these folk are on vacation that day, we pay 4 hrs of holiday and then make up whatever difference (to their regularly scheduled hours) in vacation hours.....

[david rigby]

Variation. Some employers have 30-hour per week employees. In some cases, the employee has flexibility about when those 30 hours occur. For example, 6 hours on Monday, 8 hours each on Tuesday thru Thursday, off Friday. But then a holiday comes along, and the employer pays 6 hours (one-fifth of 30) of holiday time to that employee, with out regard to actual schedule. Might end up with more or less than 30 that week. The same issue could apply to a half day of holiday time.

[Guest psg]

If we close early, we pay all full time employees for 8 hours. Part time employees would be paid for the number of hours worked.