Credit-BACK Vacation Time???

[kaytieeldr]

My last job closed once for weather, when I was on vacation. Everybody got paid. I asked for the day back (i.e. get paid for the snow day instead) but was told no. There wasn't actually a policy, but since I was on vacation and not planning to come to work that day anyway I wasn't eligible. Of course, this was the same company that, when one employee was stuck in England after the WTC attacks, was told to fly to Canada and rent a car - but to get back to work!

Today? I don't know. I'm - wait for it - home on my last day of vacation with a different company. We have a fairly flexible work schedule and could ordinarily just make up the snow day by working our day off - but with the holiday, we all decided/agreed to switch our day off to Friday. It won't affect me, but it looks like we may be open after all.

 

[Mickeyluver37]

It's interesting to see how different companies handle it.

At my old job, we had billable hours so we did our own time. I would imagine that any employee, when doing their time for that week, would have used whatever "closed/snow day" code was communicated to the rest of the office for those hours. I don't remember ever having this issue come up, though. But if I were taking Christmas Eve off, for example, when it wasn't a holiday, and they gave everyone off 3 hours early- I would bill 5 hours to vacation and 3 to office close.

At my new job, I'm not really sure. I know each department handles their own teams time, and it's not really calculated until the following week, when payroll is run. I would think for one day they might credit it back, but if someone was supposed to have this whole week off, they'd get charged for the whole week of vacation.

 

[BillSears]

Federal Government employee here and I believe we would get a refund of the Annual Leave if the building is closed for the day. But it may be an unofficial policy in my office.

 

[onelilspark]

I'm a teacher so if school is canceled on a day we put in for a personal or sick day, it doesn't count as a personal/sick day. When I had surgery, I put in for a week out of school. 2 days were snow days, so I only had to take 3 sick days. Win for me!

But in that case, you'd have to make up the day later in the year, right? I understand it for teachers.

At my fiancé's company, they'll usually send them home Christmas Eve (or this year Thursday 12/23) at noon. But if you take the day off, you have to take the full day.

 

[Christine]

Federal Government employee here and I believe we would get a refund of the Annual Leave if the building is closed for the day. But it may be an unofficial policy in my office.

I work for the Federal Government and this is how we handled it last year. If the government closed, then those people on annual/sick leave had their leave changed to administrative leave.

But if you were on annual leave and the government closed early to allow people time to safely get home, as it did one day last year, those on annual leave did not get those hours changed to admin--they were still on annual leave for the full day.

Back when I worked for a private company, I had leave scheduled on a Friday to go to a wedding out of town. Overnight, we got hit by hurricane Isabelle and our company shut down. Since I was not attempting to get into work that day, I had to stay on annual leave.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

In our company being closed for a state of emergency means that you either use a vacation or sick day or you have to take the day as an unpaid day.