Just as it says. I work full-time as a supervisor at a grocery store. I'm paid hourly, and I am subject to the hourly pay system. Basically, if you have been with the company for 6 months or longer, you receive holiday pay for something like eight holidays a year. If you are scheduled to be off on the holiday, you receive 8 hours of pay at your regular rate. It's not considered overtime. Holiday pay is a separate thing. You also receive the holiday pay even if you work 5 days that week , and there's no loss of hours. If you are scheduled to work on the holiday, you are paid time and a half. That means that if you work 8 hours that day, you receive pay for a total of 12 hours that day, which works out to getting four extra hours of pay, not eight. Further, you do not get to double dip. If you work, you get time and a half. If you are off, you get holiday pay up to 8 hours of straight time. Basically, if you're off, you get a full extra day of pay. If you work, you get a half a day of extra pay.
Something does not add up, and it smells just about as bad as the spoiled cheese that we come across in the deli. The way I see it, and the way the rest of us who are scheduled to work on the holiday see it, we should also receive the 8 hours for the holiday in addition to the time and a half. We don't get to celebrate. We're dealing with one of our busiest days of the year, and because it's a holiday, we're already short scheduled so we are picking up the slack. Throw in a few call offs, and we're busting our butts for that 4 hours of pay. Of course our store director can't do anything about it at the store level, not really. There's no law in our states that even requires holiday pay, so it's as if we're supposed to be grateful for what scraps we do work for. We should be grateful that we're getting a few extra crumbs. If anybody does call off because they are hacked off about having to work the holiday for next to nothing extra, they lose even that little bit of extra Plus an entire day of pay. It's very frustrating, and it really is not right.
I have a bunch of sick time, so I'm thinking about taking a sick day after the holiday, probably on my birthday next week. I'm going to suggest that anybody else in the same boat who has time to use, to go ahead and use it the same week. We all get our stories together, we come up with similar symptoms, and management can just think that there's crud going around the store. And they would be right, just not the crud they're thinking of.
Any better ways to deal with this until I either leave for something better, or corporate changes its way of doing things? I think the first option will come before the second.