Thanksgiving will be here before we know it and it is important that we get the time we need with our family. This would be a great time to look over what your boss is obligated to as far as being accommodating to requests for vacation time during the holiday season. You should also look at the pay responsibilities if you do end up working on a holiday. Here are some things to think about when looking forward into the holidays.

1. Business owners in California are not mandated to let their employees get vacation time during the holiday season. There are no laws that state that employers need to provide time off. When employees go to work on Saturdays, Sundays, and the holiday season, they should be treated the same as regular business hours. Business owners don’t need to provide paid holidays and their business is able to close out on any holiday. 

2. Employers in California are not required by law to pay their employees vacation time on a holiday. They are also not mandated to pay additional money to employees who labor on a holiday. Business owners are also not required to pay their workers additional or holiday money for their labor that is worked on a holiday. It is the employer’s choice to pay their employees the extra money for the labor that is needed on a holiday. It needs to be in the company policy for this to take effect.

3. Business owners need to accommodate their employees who are not able to perform labor on specific holidays because of their religion. Business owners should be accommodating to their workers in regards to religion. The evaluation of this usually comes in a case by case basis and is based on the type of company and the request made by the worker. If the business owner’s way of doing things needs workers to be at work during a holiday, such as a movie theater, this needs to be written in the employee handbook. 

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4. When the business owner pays for time off on a holiday, they don’t need to allow his or her employees to collect time off for the holiday. When or if the worker quits his or her job prior to the holidays, the business owner does not need to pay him or her for the time taken off. The business owner’s rules in regards to compensation needs to be stated in the handbook that the holiday pay benefit doesn’t become collected and that they need to be still employed with the business to receive it.

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