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Are Floating Holidays and Personal Days two names for the same concept?
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Are Floating Holidays and Personal Days two names for the same concept? If not, what distinguishes them in terms of:
-- Acquiring and accumulating
-- Using them
What organizations, if any, offe
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Are Floating Holidays and Personal Days two names for the same concept?
posted at 7/18/2009 1:32 AM EDT
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Are Floating Holidays and Personal Days two names for the same concept? If not, what distinguishes them in terms of:
-- Acquiring and accumulating -- Using them What organizations, if any, offer both floating holidays *and* personal days? And how do they define them and regulate their use? Trying to discover the different characteristics of floating holidays vs. personal days, but so far have come up with nothing. Thanks very much. Mike |
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Are Floating Holidays and Personal Days two names for the same concept?
posted at 7/18/2009 4:59 PM EDT
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Floating holidays are usually given when the employer requires employees to work on a holiday OR a holiday falls on a non-work day and the employer still wants to give the employee a holiday (think July 4th this year and the fact that the employer wanted the business open on the 3rd and the 6th). My husband gets every other Friday off and they were closed on the 3rd, which was his normal Friday off, so instead he got a floating holiday to be used later this year.
Personal days generally have nothing to do with holidays, but rather just timeoff that the employee is given outside sick or vacation...usually meant to help with dealing with personal issues during work hours. And sometimes taking a personal day doesn't count against attendance policies/points. That said, we don't give either, we just give straight sick and vacation time. |
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