EZ Messenger Staff - Update to EZM Employee Manual Section 300, Holidays

This information is to provide you with an important update to our EZ Messenger Employee Manual, Section 300, Holidays/ Paid Time Off (PTO)/ Benefits/ Leaves which is effective 1/1/2021.

Policy No. 300

Holidays

Full-time hourly and salaried employees are eligible for holiday pay. Part-time (average minimum 24 hours weekly) hourly employees will receive part-time holiday pay. These full-time hourly, part-time hourly, and salaried employees become eligible after they have been actively employed with the company for three (3) months. Casual and temporary employees, including summer employees, are not eligible for holiday pay.

New Year’s Day

Presidents’ Day

Memorial Day

Independence Day

Labor Day

Thanksgiving

Friday after Thanksgiving

Christmas Day

If a holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday will be recognized as the holiday. If a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday will be recognized as the holiday. If a holiday falls during an employee’s vacation, the holiday will not count as a vacation day. To receive holiday pay, an employee must have worked the last scheduled workday before and after the holiday, unless on prior approved PTO day. If an employee is absent immediately preceding or following a holiday, they must present valid documentation for the absence to be eligible for holiday pay.

If your work schedule is compressed and a holiday falls on a 10-hour workday, you will receive 8 hours pay. You may choose to make up the 2 additional hours throughout the week in which the holiday falls. If the holiday falls on a day you are not scheduled to work, then you will be given the preceding workday off instead. This is true even if the replacement holiday is in a different pay period.

Part-time hourly employees are paid 4 hours per holiday day.

The Company recognizes that some employees may wish to observe, as periods of worship or commemoration, certain days, which are not included in the Company's regular holiday schedule. Accordingly, employees may use accrued PTO for such reasons with their Manager’s approval. An employee who terminates his/her employment or commences an unpaid leave of absence on the last scheduled workday preceding a holiday is not eligible to receive holiday pay. Non-exempt employees required to work on a scheduled holiday will be paid their regular rate for hours worked in addition to holiday pay. Holiday pay will not count as hours worked in overtime calculations.

EZ Messenger reserves the right to modify work hours throughout the Thanksgiving/ December/ New Year’s holiday season.