Holiday Pay

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How does your facility compensate employees who work holidays? Am currently employeed at a clinic that gives everybody except one provider and an assistant/nurse holidays off with pay. The provider (physician, PA, NP) is a salaried person thus gets an alternative day off. The assistant/nurse gets 8 hours of time and one-half pay and 16 hours of on call pay= $2.00 hr. On call means that you are available to respond and be at the clinic within 20 minutes, unless its emergent then immediately. Seems like the 5 assistants/nurses who take turns with this holiday scheduling are getting the short end of the stick, or perhaps slapped with the stick especially when you work the majority of the holiday....

Specializes in geriatric.

we have 12 hour shifts. we get 8 hours to take off. if we work on the holiday, we get regular pay.

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Holiday pay? I wish! I'm single and away from home so I volunteer for every holiday. But then again, I'm military, and dear Uncle Sam can be a wee bit tight fisted!!!

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I work weekend option and if you've looked at your calender, every holiday falls on a weeked. Christmas Eve and Day, New Years Eve and Day, etc. We can't request off either. No extra pay. But it a nurse who works only during the week works on a holiday she gets time and a half. I put my foot down this year. Last year I worked EVERY stinking holiday. This year I have my twin nieces to think of. No way I'm working Christmas Day and missing their faces as they open their presents. It's their first Christmas that they'll actually be awake for. They were born on Dec. 1, 2004 and slept through last Christmas.

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Specializes in Neuro, Critical Care.
How does your facility compensate employees who work holidays? Am currently employeed at a clinic that gives everybody except one provider and an assistant/nurse holidays off with pay. The provider (physician, PA, NP) is a salaried person thus gets an alternative day off. The assistant/nurse gets 8 hours of time and one-half pay and 16 hours of on call pay= $2.00 hr. On call means that you are available to respond and be at the clinic within 20 minutes, unless its emergent then immediately. Seems like the 5 assistants/nurses who take turns with this holiday scheduling are getting the short end of the stick, or perhaps slapped with the stick especially when you work the majority of the holiday....

time and a half...

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Specializes in home health.
I work weekend option and if you've looked at your calender, every holiday falls on a weeked. Christmas Eve and Day, New Years Eve and Day, etc. We can't request off either. No extra pay. But it a nurse who works only during the week works on a holiday she gets time and a half. I put my foot down this year. Last year I worked EVERY stinking holiday.

I have somewhat the opposite problem. Our facility has a M-F nurse staff and a separate weekend staff.

LAST year I worked EVERY holiday...with the exception of Christmas day(1)was a saturday, (2) my dad had just died. If he hadn't died, they woulda been calling).

New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving. If the holiday falls on your day to work, you work. EVERYONE gets paid an extra 8 hours, whether you work or not. When the DON says :"Well, it's double time" I say NO it's NOT--I'd get that pay even if I didn't work ..

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Kind of a sore subject. Not a nurse yet, but my brother is an ER doc. He makes time + 1/2 on any legal holiday he works. The nurses? Straight time. Grrr! :o

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If you work, you get double time and a half. If you don't work, then you get paid for the day off at your regular rate.

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Specializes in Cardiology.

I thought I worked for the only a$$es that don't provide holiday pay. Sore subject for me too. If I'm giving up Christmas with my family, pay incentive would be nice!

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