Mandatory Holidays????

[gwlillith]

Just wondered what you all think of it?

Our facility has issued mandatory "summer" holidays. Full time personnel have to work 2...July 4, Easter, Labor day and/or Memorial day. We DO NOT get holiday pay for this either!

We have to work 2 "winter" holidays as well....Those we get holiday pay for...

But this "summer" mandatory holiday is the pits!!!

[HappyNurse2005, RN]

WE get holiday pay for New Years Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

As far as requiring holidays, i think thanksgiving/cmas/new years are the only ones that we are required to work every other year. the others just work themselves out, usually.

and yes, we get extra pay for them. nurses get $10 more an hour.

[jmgrn65, RN]

WE have six holidays basically you work everyother one. paid time an a half used to be time and a qtr. thanksgiving christmas, new years day, memorial day july 4th and labor day. what you work this year it is the opposite the next year.

[NYTramaRN, RN]

The only mandatory holidays we have are thanksgiving, xmas, and new years, and you put in requests for those off, if they don't fall as a natural in your work time. I usually swap xmas for new years with someone: I don't have kids, and I rather party on new years.

We get overtime pay for a holiday worked plus a day off. Nothing like a good union contract. :)

Paul

[BittyBabyGrower, MSN, RN]

We have to work at least one summer holiday (we don't count Easter, that isn't a paid holiday) and one to two winter (we count the eves in as holiday days). We get a whole whopping $2 more an hour to work the holiday....woohoo :trout:

[ljds]

We have six mandatory holidays. These are also the paid holidays.

On our floor we are divided into three groups, with a two holiday rotation. So for example, this year my group's assigned holidays are Labor day and Thanksgiving. I won't have these holidays again for another three years.

I wouldn't be working a MANDATORY "holiday" that included no holiday pay, but for which office staff received the day off. Forget that!!! Hospitals and organizations like this, with such terrible staff-management relations (come on, what good administrator would think this is a good idea?!?!) are the reasons unions are needed. Our hospital doesn't have a union; but I honestly don't think we need one, either. I feel like our management and administration is pretty reasonable and I feel the nursing staff are treated with respect.

Good luck; I agree with you that this doesn't seem right!