Easter??

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

Specializes in Oncology.
I don't get the difference between Easter and Christmas-seems to me you can't recognize one and not the other,they are both religious holidays....

Same here. I don't get it. Christmas is a "premium" holiday, paid at even more than other holidays, but nothing for Easter. But I agree. Keep it hush hush lest we lose our Christmas pay. I suspect if Easter ever fell on a weekday and the pencil pushers that made the rules had to work things would change.

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Specializes in Oncology.
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.

if you could please message me the name of this facility and a list of open positions. Yeah, that'd be great.

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Where I work, we get Presidents Day, MLK day, New Years Eve and New Years Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Columbus Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving day and the day after, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day all as paid holidays.

All that, but no Easter. I'd say Easter is at least as commercialized as Christmas. For many families it's more about bunnies and colored eggs than anything else.

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I think working for a Catholic or other Christian hospital and their not recognizing the holiday is pretty Un-Christian. Though Christ's birth is miraculous (even immaculate), what saved us all (according to the faith) is His rising again. I think having the staff away from family during this special time might be cause to part with some extra $!

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Specializes in NICU.

We get paid double time for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day only. However our health system "recognizes" a number of other holidays -- including Easter as well as 7/4, Memorial Day, Christmas Eve, and some others. We're scheduled to work every other holiday and penalized by calling out, but don't get the benefit of extra pay. You call out on one of your scheduled holidays and you're automatically assigned another.

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Easter is my favorite holiday, however it is not a paid holiday because it's considered religious. Not even Walmart employees get Easter holiday pay.

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Not my clinic. Full day too.

No, but all the clinics and off campus places close on Good Friday.
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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

Call me a cynic (thank you!), but swapping Easter for Good Friday in Christian- based facilities is a way to get around time and a half on a weekend differential while still being able to say, "Hey, we recognize Easter!"​

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Specializes in Acute Care Pediatrics.

I work every easter (I am a weekender) - and nope, no holiday pay here, although it does "count" as working a holiday. I believe the only holidays we get paid for are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and 4th of July?

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Call me a cynic (thank you!), but swapping Easter for Good Friday in Christian- based facilities is a way to get around time and a half on a weekend differential while still being able to say, "Hey, we recognize Easter!"​

I think its more like those who don't work weekends getting yet another paid holiday off.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

As I'm about to head into work, I'm reminded about what happened on my unit at Easter a few years ago. It was on detox, a semi-open unit so patients could go with staff to the cafeteria for meals. Patients were typically frequent flyers so we knew them well--and they knew each other well.

Easter Sunday day shift, late morning...

One of the patients came up to the nurses station and announced that they set up an Easter egg hunt for the staff. During breakfast, most of them got together and plotted this, so they brought up hard-boiled eggs from the cafeteria and hid them on the unit.

45 eggs to be exact.

Eggs were turning up all the way until midnight.

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Happy Easter to my Peeps on AN!

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