Easter??

CT Pixie, BSN, RN · Apr 2, 2015

In my previous positions while Easter was not paid as a holiday, Good Friday was. My current place of employment use to pay Good Friday as the holiday but this year swapped out Good Friday for another one they never paid as a holiday but do now.

My per diem position for a Catholic based facility pays Good Friday as the holiday.

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · Apr 2, 2015

My one PDN agency offers holiday pay for Easter as a floating holiday. So many ask for off its tough to cover all the medically fragile priority 1&2 pediatric clients. (Priority 3 clients are not prioritized for floating holidays)the holiday pay is often enough incentive to fill the shifts or at least the most needed shifts.

The other agency I'm lucky if scheduling remembers to code the six holidays as holiday pay...

Conqueror+, BSN, RN · Apr 2, 2015

At my old job, double time. At my new job zilch. It just depends.

Farawyn · Apr 2, 2015

My hospital job we got the day after Thanksgiving as a holiday, no ****. If you worked in the clinic you were closed and if you worked in the hospital, you got full on holiday pay. It cut down dramatically on sick calls, vacay requests for that Friday. At least if you were stuck for the holidays you would get a bit more cash.

What a few of my floors did was self schedule and divide into 4 or 6 hour shifts so no one was screwed. Easter and Mother's Day benefitted greatly from this. As long as everything was covered, the NMs didn't care. The nurses were happy and no one called out.

emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Apr 2, 2015

No extra pay but monday & tuesday will be a left over sugar extravaganza. In the words of that great philosopher Calvin, I expect to be "hyperactive and incoherent for most of the day".

Fiona59 · Apr 2, 2015

Another Canadian that gets holiday pay if scheduled to work. Our full timers get 1.5 pay and a day off later in the month (for every holiday they work)

Our ORs are also closed for non-emergent surgeries. Clinics are closed as are GPs offices.

ontheway2crna · Apr 2, 2015

I am working Easter too. My hospital does not consider it a paid holiday, although I think it should be. We are going to have a party and everyone's bringing in food, so that should make it a little better for us having to work.

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Apr 2, 2015

I work on Easter this weekend, and I was just wondering if most hospitals pay extra for this holiday or not?

At my hospital, only the 'big six' holidays qualify for holiday pay: New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

So no, Easter is not a paid holiday at my place of employment.

Dr.Naija_Glam · Apr 2, 2015

Easter is a paid holiday at the facility that I work at.

DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN · Apr 2, 2015

Only extra money I will get for working Easter is the weekend differential.

ShantheRN, BSN, RN · Apr 2, 2015

It's a paid holiday at my hospital. Easter is a big one so I'm kinda surprised that so many of you are reporting that it's not considered a holiday.

ponymom · Apr 2, 2015

Most places I worked as a nurse did pay holiday pay for Easter, but only one did so for Good Friday.

My present (non-nursing) manufacturing job offers a choice between triple-time pay and what we call 'Double and a Day', which is double-time pay plus an extra paid day off (to be used as a personal day at some other time). My last manufacturing job also did this. So for this weekend I'll be working Good Friday for double-time and an extra paid day, Saturday for time-and-a-half and then Easter Sunday for double-time and an extra paid day. Hardly anyone ever takes the triple time, as it gets eaten up in taxes anyway.