Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess
by oldprogrammer2 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:58AM
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From my personal experience, and observations of friends and family, paid time off for the holidays in the US is typically a couple days for Thanksgiving, a couple days for Christmas, and New Years Day. So it's not a complete lack of time off.
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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess
by Brendinooo on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:03AM
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Second this. My experience is that your typical businesses will either follow the federal holiday schedule[0] or modify it by adding the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve while removing 2-4 of the following: MLK Day, Presidents' Day, Columbus Day, Veterans' Day.
So, you'll typically get 8-10 PTO days, independent from vacation policy. That'll be different in the service industry - it's lucrative for some restaurants, gas stations, hotels, etc. to be open - but a lot of times hourly workers will get time-and-a-half for their troubles.
[0]: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/snow-dismissal-pro...