Easter is not a holiday?????

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i was so appalled to hear from my co-worker that easter day is not a holiday pay because lot of patients are jewish? excuse me but i am catholic and many of my co-workers are also catholic. eastern is a big day in catholic religion just like hannuka is a big holiday for jewish religion. are they going to pay us a holiday pay on hannuka???? umm nooooooooooooooooo :angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire what a joke!! they dont know how to treat us right!! :down::down::down::down::down::down::down::down::down::down:

Specializes in Med-Surg.
You must live in Louisiana - where Mardi gras is a state holiday.

Kids in the Mobile, Alabama area are off for Mardi Gras. I attended college for a couple of years in that area, and was flabbergasted when classes were closed for Mardi Gras.

Specializes in Home Care, Hospice, OB.

holidays are just wierd sometimes..

here in va, the friday before mlk day is lee-jackson day, and state employees get the day off .

i agree with many others-i always take easter as a personal vacation day, due to the extreme importance of the holiday to me spiritually but--

i used to pick up extra shifts for a jewish co-worker if the high holy days fell on days she was scheduled (and yes, she usually covered easter for me)

no matter what your religion or lack thereof, kindness and cooperation are pretty good universal goals...:redbeathe

Not true everywhere....I work Election Day, not a holiday in my state, nor is President's day,Veteran's Day or Columbus Day. However, I had ALL of those off when I worked for the state of New Jersey. No wonder they have such a budget mess! :)

I'm in Jersey now, and while I didn't get holiday pay for Easter, I got holiday pay for Good Friday. (So much for the government not recognizing religious holidays!) I also qualify for holiday pay for Election Day, of all days. :confused:

I think one possible reason for Easter not "qualifying" for holiday pay is the fact that it always falls on a Sunday. Since that is a weekend day, those government workers who work Monday through Friday wouldn't get that extra day off, so that may be why Good Friday was the paid holiday for this time of year. I also noticed that when the Fourth of July falls on a weekend, some government workers still get either the Friday or the Monday off as the holiday to get that three-day weekend.

Specializes in ICU, PACU, Cath Lab.
You worked for free? Or just not time and a half? Last I checked, I got paid for working that day.

Aww geeze I am pretty sure you know what I meant. I am not a Nurse as a hobby. So yes I got paid for Sunday...just like every Sunday I work..which is all of them. No different for Easter than for any other random day.

Specializes in Med/Surg.

We get paid time and half for Easter but not Memorial Day, go figure.

Specializes in Cardiac Care.

Christmas is not a Reglious Holiday it is considered a National Holiday. Like Memorial Day, Labor Day, 4th of July and Thanksgiving. Which so happen to be the ONLY ones we get paid for around here as well. Now with that being said all "Holiday" pay is discretionary to the agency that you work.

Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.
Kids in the Mobile, Alabama area are off for Mardi Gras. I attended college for a couple of years in that area, and was flabbergasted when classes were closed for Mardi Gras.

Savannah virtually shuts down for St. Patricks Day and is a Holiday there. It might as well be in Boston also.

Specializes in Public Health, DEI.

Growing up in PA, we always had the first day of deer hunting off. Of course, that was the schools, not the hospitals. Something tells me the ERs probably were busier than usual that day.

Specializes in Med-Surg.
Growing up in PA, we always had the first day of deer hunting off. Of course, that was the schools, not the hospitals. Something tells me the ERs probably were busier than usual that day.

My husband's (PT with wound care cert.) busiest day of the year is always July 4th, because he has mult patients to consult with due to burns from fireworks. And 95% or so come from idiots trying to hold bottle rockets, or crap like that.

Specializes in neuro, ICU/CCU, tropical medicine.
My husband's (PT with wound care cert.) busiest day of the year is always July 4th, because he has mult patients to consult with due to burns from fireworks. And 95% or so come from idiots trying to hold bottle rockets, or crap like that.

Ahh, sometimes I really miss working trauma!

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