Christmas Eve a paid holiday?

We get Christmas Eve & Christmas, New Years Eve & New years as paid holidays. When I work one of these I get double time & a half. Plus shift diff.

 

For the 1st time ever my company is letting people use a sick day for the 26th. They will also allow it on Jan 2nd. They sent out an email saying do to hard times they are allowing this one time deal.

 

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No xmas eve here just the standard xmas day if you work in a different department or it falls on your weekend like it has for me this year.
This will be the first year in many years I get xmas day off since it fell on my weekend.

 

I get X-mas eve and X-mas day paid. Also New Yrs eve and New years day off paid. Then the whole bottling line shuts down for the 2 weeks and then I use 4 days of Vac to have 2 weeks off with them.

 

thats the first Ive heard of that. My squadron is saying all we get off is xmas eve and day

 

The company I work for now gives Christmas Eve off.......it's the FIRST company I ever worked for that does this.

I also get the day after Thanksgiving as a holiday.

 

It's a paid holiday for me....but not for my husband.

He makes up for it on Black Friday - he gets paid off while I don't.

We also get New Years Eve & Day paid.

I'm sure sooner or later, my company will take away Christmas Eve & New Years Eve as HOlidays. It's only a matter of time.

 

I get double time and a half for working a holiday and regular pay if I'm off. I get Thanksgiving and the day after as family day, Christmas day, New Years Day. I also get paid for Halloween since it is a state holiday in NV as NV Day. I don't usually get them off unless its my RDO since we operate 24/7. I get a bonus paid day off for my birthday also and we get 2 paid time off days a month which is about 220hours a year. I also get shift diff since I'm on graves.
I have County job benefits, no state tax, no social security, 100% paid medical.
I'm grateful for my job .

 

Ive been with my current company for about 5 years now...Our christmas holiday is awesome...We usually get from the 24th to Jan 2nd off...But this year, we have to work on christmas eve for some reason...but we get 25th - Jan 4th off...PAID...

I love my job...Only downside is during the year, how everybody (government) gets off all those small holidays...like presidents day, MLK day, veterens day, Columbus day, etc...We have to work...But im a support technician for the government, so we work, but the gov has a holiday...so there is nobody here...lol

 

Nope, more than full time, actually. We're a dialysis company so we can't really close for things. The holidays we do get off we're open on the Sunday before to make up for it.

 

Burnt it all on vacations and hunting. And yeah, your exactly right about the "bend the rules" which I was banking on. I guess I loose, and will be working. I guess at least Christmas is paid.

 

I voted yesterday... Don't get the day off here... Usually a mild early release though... However, the President gave me the day after Xmas off... That was dope!!

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
(College Station, Texas)

________________________________________________________________________
__________________________
For Immediate Release
December 12, 2008

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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CLOSING OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2008


By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as
follows:

Section 1. All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Friday, December 26, 2008, the day after Christmas Day, except as provided in section 2 of this order.


Sec. 2. The heads of executive branch departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on December 26, 2008, for reasons of national security or defense or other public need.


Sec. 3. Friday, December 26, 2008, shall be considered as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United States.


Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against the United States, its agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.




GEORGE W. BUSH


THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 12, 2008.

 

My employer closes from 24 Dec through 1 Jan. Paid time off.

 

I get the 24th, 25th and 1st off so I used the remainder off my personal days on the Fridays, 26th and 2nd (2009 personal day actually), and my remaining vacation to fill the gap. So I essentially have the 24th-4th off, paid. Then again I am salaried. The engineer I am training to replace/work under/work with took the same schedule off. Now all of our plant contractors and technicians are asking what they should do. He just threw his hands up and shrugged his shoulders. Last year when I was an intern we just watched movies on the 40" main display.

At the ski resort, we were required to work Christmas Day. It was one of the busiest days with many Chinese and Jewish guests. But now I only work there Saturdays or at my leisure. I

 

I've always had Christmas Eve off, but my father and brother (both work at the same company) are getting Christmas Day and the day after. I'm not sure which I'd prefer.

Of course, most people (the bosses) take vacation on the 26th around here, so I can come in early and ease out mid-afternoon to get a full day on Friday. Sometimes a relaxed, early day is as good as a vacation day (only w/o reducing the vacay balance).

 

the company i work for always gives us paid time off from christmas to newyears. this year, however, we are also getting paid for dec 24 and jan 2

 

get this bullshit, not only is xmas eve not a paid holiday, but neither is the day after or the day after new years. but the plant i work at is closed. so i cant come into work. so i HAVE to use vacation days even though the plant is closed and i cant come in, even if i wanted to. i'm fuckin pissed!

 

My company has 13 paid holidays a year. We always get Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Years, New Years Eve, Labor Day, and a ton others. Gotta love working for the man!