I just got a call from my boss about the holiday schedule for the year. Said it is giving her the biggest headache of her life. Wants some of us to come in and discuss it Friday. Here are the sticky points:
We have six holidays-New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. We are suppose to work every other holiday. And if we work Thanksgiving you get Christmas off, or vica versa. The last two years our hospital has hired "weekend" only people who work only weekends. They don't work a holiday unless it falls on the weekend. Which really puts some of us in a bind at the holiday time. The last couple of years they have pulled day shift people to cover 3-11 on the holidays, which is a very sore point with the day people. The management says that is the only way it is fair. We say bull****. Anyway, I am trying to find out how other facilities to the holiday schedules. Do you do every other? Do you get pulled off your normal shift to cover? Any ideas here would be welcomed. Thanks...