"Soft Holidays" and "Hard Holidays" format?

Wolf

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My job is starting to split our employee's holidays "Soft Holidays" and "Hard Holidays".

The "Soft Holidays" are: Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, MLK Day and President's Day.

The "Hard Holidays" are basically: 4th of July, New Years, Thanksgiving, Christmas and some others.

Does any of your jobs do that yet? But the advantage is I have two options:

Option #1 - Work the eight hours and bank the holiday hours as PTO, which I have earned enough PTO already.

or

Option #2 - Work the eight hours and combined them to my already worked eight hours and earn 16 hours of pay, which I prefer.

Also at my job, if you don't show up then you get written up for not submitting a take the day off form! :rolleyes:

But mainly to me it fills like the big guy wants to screw the little guy and makes us show up for work longer. :mad:
 
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Wolf

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Yea it didn't make sense either, so I got rid of that in the title. Just to give heads up I have a hard time spelling certain words in my posts, so I try to think of other words close to it and yes I use the internet and Word to help myself out before posting. But most of the time the spelling check doesn't come close on what I am trying to spell.
 
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Wolf I can't speak specificially to your situation, but as an employer myself here is my holiday policy.

I basically give 5 holidays ( call these company holidays) you call them hard holidays. This would be New Years, Good Friday, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas. I think give 4 personal days, which can be used in conjunction with any of the company holidays. For example: if I want to take off New Years Eve and New Years Day. I'd take a personal day for New Years Eve and New Years would be a company holiday.

In my inpatient facilities where staff has to be there. If you work on a holiday because you are scheduled, then you get double time. I think this is fair and besides, when you pay double time, you always have folks more than willing to work those holidays.
 
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Wolf I can't speak specificially to your situation, but as an employer myself here is my holiday policy.

I basically give 5 holidays ( call these company holidays) you call them hard holidays. This would be New Years, Good Friday, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas. I think give 4 personal days, which can be used in conjunction with any of the company holidays. For example: if I want to take off New Years Eve and New Years Day. I'd take a personal day for New Years Eve and New Years would be a company holiday.

In my inpatient facilities where staff has to be there. If you work on a holiday because you are scheduled, then you get double time. I think this is fair and besides, when you pay double time, you always have folks more than willing to work those holidays.

When i used to work for other people I always got off Xmas, half day xmas eve, tgiving, half day day before t-giving, half day before NYE, NYE, 4th of july or day before if it fell on a weekend, labor day, memorial day, depending on years of service 5-10 vacation days then misc PTO.

now that I own my own business I get no days off:churn:
 

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At the job I work I never get those soft holidays off, nor do I get any extra pay for working them. At most of the telecomm offices I work at, AT@T Wireless and T-Mobile, employees have the option to take 2 of the soft holidays and work 2, their choice which ones they take. However, I have gotten most of the Hard holidays off. I've worked a couple of them on occasion, I worked the 4th of July twice, been on the road but off work for New Years, Labor Day, and Memorial day at least once. I have never missed Christmas or Thanksgiving. Actually though, in my old postion I had from the day before Christmas eve to the day after New Years off, a full 2 weeks (but not paid). I'm afraid in my new position I'm not going to get that, but I could use the money now that I'm single.
 
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The last company I worked for had "floating holidays". They are basically the same thing as your soft holidays. There were 2-3 per year depending on when the "hard holidays" fell in the week. The first day of Buck hunting is always one because, otherwise, 60+% of the people just wouldn't show up.
 

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At my work I get almost every holiday off, and then some. I also get the most important holiday off.....summer!
 

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Well for me going to work on a "Soft Holiday" today, was boring and we didn't get alot of work in. But I didn't care, my manager was off and we joked around all day and got paid for 16 hours today! :churn:
 

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Our holiday schedule mirrors that of the NY Stock Exchange.

We do give employees some "personal" days. Some people in my firm take the Jewish holidays off (Rosh Hashannah/Yom Kippur), but we don't dock them for that. It is a small company, so we try to be flexible with the employees when we can (assuming everyone gets their jobs done).
 

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Well for me going to work on a "Soft Holiday" today, was boring and we didn't get alot of work in. But I didn't care, my manager was off and we joked around all day and got paid for 16 hours today! :churn:

I got paid for tinkering in my barn all day. :yesshake: