Q&A

Does my employer have to pay me before Christmas?

Does my employer have to pay me before Christmas?

Many employers will change the payday for December so that you have money to cover Christmas. With Christmas Day falling on a Wednesday this year, it’s likely your employer will pay you before – on either 23 or 24 December.

Do you have to pay employees when you close for the holidays?

Unless the closure extends for a full workweek, the exempt employee should experience no interruption in salary for the purpose of a holiday closure. The employer may require the exempt employee to use accrued vacation time or PTO time to cover the closure.

Do you get paid for vacation time when you quit your job?

An employer has a brand to maintain among prospective workers; by offering benefits like paid vacation time, they can increase their perceived value among future job candidates. In fact, even though most employers are not required to offer paid time off, most private-sector companies do.

How can my employer cut my paid time off?

In a bid to reduce the amount of coverage needed due to PTO my new manager is requiring us to use 12 hours of PTO per vacation day, turning our 22 days of PTO into 14.6 days. How can he do this? First of all, there are no federal laws and very few local laws surrounding vacation or paid time off.

Do you have to pay exempt employees for holidays?

However, new exempt employees should not be covered by this policy and should receive pay for holidays. As explained in # 1, above, if you do not pay exempt employees, new or old, for holidays they do not work, you may jeopardize their exempt status.

Do you have to pay your employees for vacation time?

While a number of states have laws that require employers to pay their employees any vacation time they have accrued, those laws do not require employers to give their employees any vacation time at all.

Unless the closure extends for a full workweek, the exempt employee should experience no interruption in salary for the purpose of a holiday closure. The employer may require the exempt employee to use accrued vacation time or PTO time to cover the closure.

Do you get a week off for Christmas?

Employees will get a week off that costs you only four days. Even Ebenezer Scrooge gave Bob Cratchit the day off on Christmas Day, and of course you’ll do that for your employees. Since Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, many employers are giving employees the following Monday off.

Do you have to pay exempt employees during holiday shutdown?

However, these tactics raise issues around the payment of exempt salaried employees that every employer needs to be aware of. Hourly employees, of course, need not be paid during these holiday closures. Non-exempt salaried employees also need not be paid for this time.