Holiday Pay and FMLA

jdohearty

Help! Wondering if there are any State (Wisconsin) or Federal regulations stating if you have to pay Holiday Pay during a leave of absence or is this a company decision? Thanks, Julie

dhnyct

If our employee is using available PTO concurrent with FMLA, we include holiday pay. Otherwise, FMLA is "unpaid leave".

Gar

We are a local government here in N.C. We require our employees' accrued paid sick and vacation days to run simultaneously or concurrently with FMLA time off. If employees have no accrued paid sick/vacation days, FMLA time off is without pay (no-pay status). Our employees are not paid for holidays while they are in no-pay status.

Ruskanen

Our company has always gone under the standard of FMLA and attendance. FMLA should not adversely affect a person's attendance record. Therefore, if they would normally receive pay for a holiday (At our company they have to work the scheduled day before and the scheduled day after the holiday), we pay them. Our employees receive their holiday pay when they come back from FMLA, on the sheduled date of return. We use the same standard for our Perfect Attendance policy. If a person is gone for a complete month, we can't penalize them for using FMLA, so they still receive the perfect attendance bonus at the end of the month. The HR Manager that was here before me set that up. I don't know where she got that information, but she was usually had her ducks in a row about things like that.