Holiday proposal

[Eagleschamp52]

Hi everyone, I am looking for some advice for our holiday situation. Currently at our facility we are required to work 3 major holidays out of the 6. The issue is for night shift staff. They are required to work the night before the holiday into the holiday. If it isn't your holiday to work, you work the night of the holiday. In essence, you are basically working every holiday. Day shift has the better package right now. They just work the day of the holiday. So the new proposal from the manager is to make it fair for everyone and work the day before the holiday and the day of the holiday. So the following two years you don't work the holiday you worked both sides of. Instead of 2 groups, it will consist of groups a,b,c. Night shift is happy with this proposal because we will be able to spend a full holiday with our family. I know a hospital is 24-7 facility and I knew we would work holidays and weekends, just not every holiday. Day shift isn't happy with the proposal and have a lot of pushback. We have to put in our votes by the end of this month. The issue is that there is more dayshift staff and casuals that make up that side of the pot so I also feel like it may or may not slay to declining this proposal. I think it's fair for both sides that way everyone gets to enjoy time with their family. What are your thoughts?

[NurseBlaq]

I was wondering why most places don't adopt this sort of system. In Canada (the places I worked, anyway) you picked Christmas or New Years to have off (or got assigned based on seniority). Having Christmas off meant being off Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. New Years meant New Years Eve and New Years Day. That way you got to enjoy an actual holiday.

Most places I've worked in the States you choose among Christmas Eve, Day, New Years Eve, Day. How is it a holiday to have New Years Eve off and have to come back in the morning of New Years Day? That never made any sense to me.

For the OP, I'd be in favour of each shift doing its own thing. The whole point is coverage. Each shift has its own issues to work around. Just curious OP, when you start your night shift, are you considered to be working the same day you arrive at work, or the day the majority of your hours falls on? That may be an issue in how holidays are arranged.

Because if you work nights you're basically working both despite having one off.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

We have seven holidays: New Years Day, MLK, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. You work every other holiday, so you can predict years in advance which ones you'll be required to work. This year, it's New Years Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day and Christmas. In 2019, it will be, MLK, Independence Day and Thanksgiving. Each shift works their assigned holiday plus one day on either side of it. Three in a row is optional, but many choose that just because they prefer having their days off in a row. It usually works out pretty well.