No Holiday Pay?

DaFreak71 · Nov 27, 2006

My husband doesn't get holiday pay and has to work either Christmas day or Christmas eve. Had to work Thanksgiving, have to work new years, 4th of July, etc. No union.

We plan on moving when I graduate NS, somewhere where the pay is better, the air is cooler and paid holidays would be a welcomed change!

JenNJFLCA · Nov 27, 2006

We get time and a 1/2, which is not enough to be away from our families IMHO. I get paid and extra $25 for working every other weekend. :angryfire Not much incentive to come in if you ask me! :trout:

RazorbackRN, BSN, RN · Nov 27, 2006

No union. Time and 1/2. This also includes the day before and after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve/New Years Eve.

DolphinRN84, MSN, RN, APRN, NP · Nov 27, 2006

Yes we get holiday pay. I didn't work Thanksgiving but I did get paid for the 8 hours. I'm 40 hours a week. I'm not sure if you work a holiday you get time and a half or double time...but you do get holiday pay.

sweetielin · Nov 30, 2006

Straight time for holidays worked. Everyone gets 8 hours of paid time off at their base pay regardless of whether they work the holiday.We work 12 hour shifts, so to actually get a day off you have to take your holiday and 4 hours vacation time. No union. Pretty sorry I think.

Laught3r · Nov 30, 2006

I get holiday pay. I get double time for the holiday if I work the day of, the day before, or the day after. If I don't work either of those three days then I get regular time just because I work here. I love this place.

Freedom42 · Nov 30, 2006

I'm a student; I do not yet work in health care. I left a union job three months ago. We received double time and a half for the first eight hours of work on any holiday; any hours worked after that was paid at triple time. We were also entitled to turnaround time, meaning that if we received less than a 10-hour break between shifts, we were entitled to quadruple time (fourple time?) until that 10-hour break period had elapsed.

Oh, yes, and of course all holidays included a catered turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Those of us not working would receive $100 grocery cards at Christmas. I had six weeks' paid time off (thanks to seniority; newbies start at two weeks) plus three personal days and eight holidays.

Since none of the major hospitals in my home state is unionized yet, I expect I can kiss that turkey dinner and all that overtime goodbye when I graduate. I'm curious: To what unions do the nurses with good holiday pay packages belong? Anyone in SEIU?

dazey71 · Nov 30, 2006

We get time and a half. I think that there would be quite a few call-ins if we didn't get any extra pay for the holidays.

Chaya, ASN, RN · Nov 30, 2006

Wow! Didn't realize anyplace gave you pay for a holiday shift you didn't work! We get holiday pay only if you work that day, and at this point there are only like 3 holidays that qualify. This year if the holiday is on your weekend- you work it. Non negotiable unless, you can find someone to trade.

We are non-union (I think I'm seeing a trend here).

Chaya, ASN, RN · Nov 30, 2006

Our holiday/unsocial hours pay is suposedly worked into our wages already. A full timer has to work 4 bank holidays in a year & a part timer 2. Funnily enough we're owned by a US company! When I worked in the NHS we got time & a half for working Bank hols & extra allowance for "unsocial" hours, which on a late shift usually meant 1.5 hrs enhanced pay & enhanced pay for weekends.

RGN1: What is "unsocial" time-is that time when you are not working per se but are obligated to be available to come in? (What we would call "on call").

mollyma · Jan 10, 2007

where do you work? i never heard of triple time before

Freedom42 · Jan 10, 2007

Not sure to whom your question is addressed, but I did mention triple time. I worked at a TV station and had a union contract. It was a standard provision.