Paid Holiday time for holidays that fall on a weekend

[Guest Christie Kambich]

Can anyone provide information or protocal for instances when holidays do not fall on normally scheduled work days? Ex. our company provides Xmas Eve Day and Xmas Day as observed paid holidays. However, the interpretation cause some arguments. One VP saying that we should only provided Xmas Eve off and the other saying it should make no difference which days the holiday fall on we should provide employees with 2 days off in addition to the weekend (4 day weekend.) Please help. Also, is there any place to find out the Sat holiday/Friday off, Sunday holiday/Monday off rational or tradition? Thank you.

[Guest Cristina]

I work for a small company. We offer Christmas Day and the day after or before Christmas depending. If Christmas Day is on a Friday - we get Thursday and Friday off. If Christmas Day is on a Monday - we get Monday and Tuesday off. As Christmas fell on a Saturday in 99, we got the Friday before and the Monday after.