Thank you to the 52 companies that participated in this survey!
1. New Year’s 2019 (Tuesday, January 1)
- Tuesday, January 1 only (63%)
- Monday, December 31 & Tuesday, January 1 (31%)
- 1/2 day Monday, December 31 & all day Tuesday, January 1 (6%)
2. Martin Luther King Day
- Monday, January 21 (27%)
3. President’s Day
- Monday, February 18 (10%)
4. Good Friday (Easter is Sunday, April 21)
- Friday, April 19 (full day) (17%)
- Friday, April 19 (half-day) (4%)
5. Memorial Day
- Monday, May 27 (96%)
6. Independence Day (July 4)
- Thursday, July 4 only (90%)
- Thursday, July 4 & Friday, July 5 (10%)
7. Labor Day
- Monday, September 2 (94%)
8. Columbus Day
- Monday, October 14 (3%)
9. Veteran’s Day (Monday, November 11)
- Monday, November 11 (10%)
10. Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 28)
- Thursday, November 28 only (19%)
- Thursday November 28 & Friday November 29 (79%)
11. Christmas (Wednesday, December 25)
- Wednesday, December 25 only (40%)
- Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25 (40%)
- Other (please specify) (19%)
• Monday through Wednesday
• Monday December 24, 2018 through Tuesday January 1, 2019
• Employees have the opportunity to bank extra hours worked so that they can be off the entire week of Christmas
• December 18-31
• 1/2 Day Tuesday 24 & Full Day Wednesday, December 25 (4 responses)
• Entire week of Dec 23-27
• December 25-Jan 1
12. Plant Shutdown
- Mid-Year (0%)
- Year-End (12%)
13. Floating Holidays
- 1 day (19%)
- 2 days (12%)
- 3 days (0%)
- More than 3 days (4%)
14. Miscellaneous – Please list other holidays (e.g., employee’s birthday, Rosh Hashanah, etc.) observed by your company.
- Employee Birthday (4 responses)
- Boxing day
- Individuals take off for personal time their religious holidays.
- We have 1 day built in to our PTO plan for BD after an associate has completed 5 years of service
- We typically also give an additional company-paid holiday during our year-end office closure. This is determined based on company performance for the year.
- Employee’s birthday, except for fire bargaining unit, they get Easter
15. What is your method of compensating exempt employees who work on a holiday?
- Day’s pay + regular pay (8%)
- Day’s pay + time-and-a-half for actual hours worked (2%)
- Day’s pay + double-time for actual hours worked (0%)
- Comp-time (19%)
- Do not offer special pay for holidays (50%)
- Other:
• Provide a day off to be used later in teh calendar year. If the holiday is late in the year, then we allow a floating holiday to carry over into the next year.
• May take the holiday a different day.
• Day of Pay + Stipend
• We leverage PTO for all time off (Holidays, Vacation time and Sick Time), therefore exempt and non-exempt employees do not use PTO if they work a holiday.
• We do not work on a Holiday
• Employees do not work holidays; office shuts down (2 responses)
• Try to float the holiday for them
• Do not work on holidays
16. What is your method of compensating non-exempt employees who work on a holiday?
- Day’s pay + regular pay (38%)
- Day’s pay + time-and-a-half for actual hours worked (21%)
- Day’s pay + double-time for actual hours worked (4%)
- Comp-time (0%)
- Do not offer special pay for holidays (13%)
- Other:
• They may have another day off to be used in calendar year. If they holiday they work is later in the year, we allow a floating holiday to carry over into the first quarter of the new year.
• Days pay plus they can take the holiday a different day
• Depends on union contract language
• Time and half for all hours worked (3 responses).
• Employees do not work holidays; office shuts down
• General employees in addition to the 8 hours of holiday pay, a full-time employee who is required to work on the holiday will be compensated for up to eight hours at one and one-half times their hrly rate.
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