How are you compensated for holidays?

December 20, 2008

Another question, how are you compensated for working holidays?

Before I started in 1975 and continuing until last month, if we worked on a

holiday we were paid doubletime in addition to the straight time. The reason

being that that our contract is the same as for our public works and utilities

(electric, water, sewer) as they get paid for the day off and are compensated at

the doubletime rate if they are called out on a holiday.

Seems that in our new contract the town snuck it in that in our case if we are

regularly scheduled to work on a holiday we now only get paid another 13 hours

straight time or we can take a comp day off which then has to be covered by

somebody at the time and a half rate. If we are scheduled off on a holiday, we

get to take another day off which also has to be covered by somebody else on

overtime. Now nobody wants to work the holiday with some threatening to be

sick.

The holidays we get are New Years Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday, Memorial

Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, General Eelection Day, Veterans Day,

Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Friday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years

Eve.

Thanks.

Thanks,

Rich Dean

NJ

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