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Data from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) shows just how many U.S. Your day after Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve Many employers add either, making these seven or eight holidays the ones mostly provided to employees and/or paid as vacation pay. Because most of these holidays are clustered in the summertime and early winter, adding paid holidays in the spring and fall can help even out breaks and keep your employee morale and productivity up. For further about paid time off (PTO) as a whole and the way to provide it, see our full comprehensive guide, which covers vacation, sick and tired leave, holidays, bereavement, and more.
In addition, some ongoing companies provide a different set of paid holidays to salaried employees versus hourly workers, or even to part-timers who don’t work a full-time or regular schedule. To be able to manage your holiday pay policy (once you determine which holidays to pay for), we recommend drafting your policy and adding … Read more