Are you working/is your company open on January 2nd?

I'm surprised how many people have off for all federal holidays, do you all work for the government? Just curious.

I *think* our holiday calendar for 2012 will be:

1/2/12 - New Year's observed
2/20/12 - President's Day
5/28/12 - Memorial Day
7/4/12 - Independence Day
9/3/12 - Labor Day
11/22/12 & 11/12/13 - Thanksgiving
12/25/12 - Christmas (and maybe a half day on 12/24/12)
 
I'm surprised how many people have off for all federal holidays, do you all work for the government? Just curious.

No but I work for a financial institution so when the Fed is closed we are closed. More specifically when the Federal Reserve bank of Cleveland is closed we are closed.
 
We're closed, Market's closed----- wish we weren't--I'd rather have the floating holiday.

Retail is open 1/1 and 1/2 :( That's my other job.
 
We're closed, it's a paid holiday. We always get a paid holiday for Christmas and New Year's Day - if the actual holiday falls on a weekend, we get Friday or Monday off instead.
 

NYSE is closed so we are closed-its written as Jan 1 (Observed on Jan 2)- same w/ Christmas Dec 25 observed on December 26.

Dh is also off but the kids go back to school on that monday (only district around here :confused3) but we've officially stated its a 'date day'.
 
We leave noon December 24, and we return Jan 3rd. However, my dept has a couple days in the middle to process a payroll.

I hate when December has the 3rd check.
 
My dh works for a private company. He started there in January. He gets off Christmas Eve/Christmas Day, New Years Eve and New Years Day. This year he gets paid for 12/23, 12/26, 12/30 and 1/2. I thought the girls had school on 1/2 but it turns out they don't. They do have a full day on 12/23 and won't be happy to find out dh has the day off.
 
I mentioned in the day after Christmas thread... we are a 24/7/365 business. There is ALWAYS someone working (I'm not talking a security guard). We get seven paid holidays every year...

New Year's Day
Memorial Day
Fourth of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Day after Thanksgiving
Christmas

If any of the bolded holidays falls on a Saturday, the Friday before is the 'designated' holiday.
If any of the bolded holidays falls on a Sunday, the Monday after is the 'designated' holiday.

So, people who actually work Christmas & New Years Day (12/25 & 1/1) just get their normal hours. Folks who work the designated days (12/26 & 1/2) actually get double time... the hours they actually work PLUS the holiday pay.
 
Count me in with the group of people tied to the stock market - if they're closed, generally we're closed.

We do have a few days during the year where the market is closed but we are still open - Columbus Day/Veteran's Day - so we either do catch-up work or sit and twiddle our thumbs all day (depending how caught-up you are!).

We were shocked about January 2, 2012, though. NYD was Saturday the previous year, and we didn't get a holiday out of it at all.
 
We were shocked about January 2, 2012, though. NYD was Saturday the previous year, and we didn't get a holiday out of it at all.

The rule is that if a holiday falls on a Saturday, then the preceding Friday is the observed holiday. However, if the Friday is the end of the month or year, then for accounting purposes there is no observed holiday. Since the 1st was on Saturday this year, December 31st was both a monthly and yearly ending so no observed holiday.

Yeah...we weren't happy either! :mad:
 
We get both 12/30 & 1/2 as paid days days off for New Years.

Also getting 12/23 & 12/26 off for Christmas.

I love the short weeks this time of year:lovestruc
 
I am working January 2, 2012 as is my DH.

I am a veterinarian, so we are open Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve as well. Hurrah for me.

My DH works for a small software company (60 employees) and is off the Friday before New Years as his paid holiday.
 
We were quite surprised to find out that we do not have 1/2/12 off as a holiday. We're getting Easter Monday off instead. :confused3

Our 2012 holiday schedule: Good Friday; Easter Monday; Memorial Day; July 4th; Labor Day; Thanksgiving & day after; Christmas Eve & day; New Year's Eve.
 
We are half and half here.

We are a trucking company. And the boss has determined that since 1-1-12 falls on a Sunday and the verbage in the handbook reads "for any holiday that falls on a weekend, you will have either the day before or the day after off", that he is going to split us in half. Half of us will be off on 12/30 and half of us will be off on 1/2/12.

I personally don't care one way or the other, just so long as I get my paid holiday off.
 
My company (private) is closed on 1/2/12. My DH works for a local city and he is off on 1/2/12. My kid's school is closed on 1/2/12 (they go back on 1/3). All are consider observed New Years Day holiday.

My company used to follow the Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, NYE and NYD holiday schedule (using the Friday before or the Monday after if they fell during the weekend). But the last couple of years they have been moving holidays around to match our customers more. This year instead of getting 12/23 and 12/30 as our observed Christmas and NYE holidays, we are getting 12/26 (Christmas Day Observed), 12/27 (floating), 12/28 (floating) and 1/2/12 (NYD observed).

So you can imagine that about 3/4 of the company has submitted vacation request for 12/29 and 12/30. I plan to work those day....since it will be nice and quiet around here :thumbsup2
 
Both my company and my husband's (both large companies) are closed on January 2 this year. We always get one paid holiday for New Year's Day. Since it's on a Sunday this year, we get Monday off. (Although I don't work on Mondays anymore, so it doesn't do me any good!)

Last year, when it was on a Saturday, DH's company got Friday 12/31 off in observance of NYD. His company policy substitutes the "closest weekday" if the holiday falls on a weekend. My company gave Monday, January 3 as the holiday...because it was the closest weekday *within* the new calendar year. (Apparently it would have created an issue to give a 2011 holiday in 2010.)
 
I'm surprised how many people have off for all federal holidays, do you all work for the government? Just curious.

I *think* our holiday calendar for 2012 will be:

1/2/12 - New Year's observed
2/20/12 - President's Day
5/28/12 - Memorial Day
7/4/12 - Independence Day
9/3/12 - Labor Day
11/22/12 & 11/12/13 - Thanksgiving
12/25/12 - Christmas (and maybe a half day on 12/24/12)

My Company is private and we get 12 holidays a year (but the actual days can vary based on when certain holidays fall that year).

For 2012, we will get:
1/2 - New Years Day
1/16 - MLK Day
5/28 - Memorial Day
7/4 - 4th of July
7/5 - 4th of July (floating holiday)
7/6 - 4th of July (floating holiday)
9/3 - Labor Day
11/22 - Thanksgiving
11/23 - Day after Thanksgiving
12/24 - Christmas Eve
12/25 - Christmas
12/31 - New Years Eve

(some years we get President's Day off and this year we even had Columbus Day off, just based on how other days fell).
 
The State of TX decides when I get off and they decided that January 2nd is not a holiday for us. Instead we get Dec 23 & 26 off.
 
Any Federal Holiday that falls on a Sunday is actually, for work purposes, celebrated on Monday. Just as one on a Saturday has Friday as the work day off.
 
Don't know if DH has to work yet or not, but the company is operating. We are an airline family, so everyday of the year is a potential work day. Oh, and NO holiday pay if you do happen to be working.
 


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