So I’m a low-level manager at a global manufacturing company. I disagree with how my company treats and pays its hourly associates on a whole, but one thing we do right is pay employees double for working on holidays. Supply chain demands we work on MLK day? Ok, but we’ll pay you twice as much for your hours worked that day.
However, TIL staffing companies don’t pay that out. We hire through temp services meaning everyone has to work a set amount of time through a temp agency before being hired on to our company. MY company pays out holiday pay to everyone. The way temp works is we pay the temp company (plus a premium for finding the employee) and the temp company pays the employee. In summation, we pay our temp associates double time for working holidays, but the temp agencies (3 out of the 4 we employ through) keep that extra pay for themselves. Temps make up over a third of our work force. What can I do?
TLDR: We pay temps extra money for working holidays but temp agencies keep the extra dough. What do now?