Federal holidays and private employers

Squishypig

As usual, I need to make sure that I have all of my bases covered because I anticipate a fight with this issue.

If we do not designate a day as a holiday and decide to stay open(example July 4th), we are not obligated to pay holiday pay, correct? We are a private employer.

Johnette
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MrCreosote

That is completely up to your company. You are not required by law to offer holidays or any kind of holiday pay. You might lose a lot of people if you don't, though. Many stores are open on holidays and some pay time and a half for those days, just to maintain employee relations, and others pay regular hourly rate.

Margaret Morford

Unless you have some sort of unusual state law, you are correct. However, employers usually pay holiday pay to avoid having an inordinate number of people call in sick that day and being short staffed. You might think about giving people that have to work the holiday an additional day off at another time as an incentive not to call in sick.

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Pork

Squishypig: I believe that if you have an announced paid holiday and you decide to be open, then, joint the crowd that is open 25/8 days a week and we get the opportunity to pay our workers that are working regular hours, which also count toward their 40 hours of overtime. The 8 hours paid for the holiday causes the computer program to look at paying O/T for all hours worked over 48. If the employee only works 39 + hours, the 8 holiday hours we pay all hours at regular rate of pay. Be proud and happy that you had dedicated workers who were willing and able to come in and work on the holiday while others were at rest or whatever! Are we in the same "swine world" or does the name represent a personal blessing toward "pig"? Pork