No paid holiday for 1 year - is this normal ???
Dec 17th 2008, 8:04 pm
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Dec 17th 2008, 10:32 pm
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Re: No paid holiday for 1 year - is this normal ???
It should accrue from day 1. If you have 3 weeks vacation you will accrue 6% of each paycheck. E.g. if you earn $1,000 a week you will accure $60 a week. After you have worked 50 weeks you will have $3,000 accrued - sufficent for 3 weeks pay.
Hourly paid jobs often start with a 4% accrual. As employers tended to prefer their employees to take their vacation all at once they would insist they worked 50 weeks from their start date, at which time they had sufficient holiday pay accrued for a 2 week vacation.
As said above, this is highly negotiable. I know employers who will not allow more vacation time than accrued, but I have not know of an employer insisting on a full year of service before allowing any vacation.
Accrued vacation pay is yours. If you don't take the vacation time, or if you leave a job, you can insist the employer pays you all the accrued pay. Other employers will pay out the vacation pay with each paycheck. If your salary is $1,000 a week they will pay you $1,060.00. It is then up to you to save sufficient money to cover your holiday pay.
Hourly paid jobs often start with a 4% accrual. As employers tended to prefer their employees to take their vacation all at once they would insist they worked 50 weeks from their start date, at which time they had sufficient holiday pay accrued for a 2 week vacation.
As said above, this is highly negotiable. I know employers who will not allow more vacation time than accrued, but I have not know of an employer insisting on a full year of service before allowing any vacation.
Accrued vacation pay is yours. If you don't take the vacation time, or if you leave a job, you can insist the employer pays you all the accrued pay. Other employers will pay out the vacation pay with each paycheck. If your salary is $1,000 a week they will pay you $1,060.00. It is then up to you to save sufficient money to cover your holiday pay.
What I meant from my post in which I said "mine accured from day 1" was "every week I work I get 0.4 days off" so after 3 weeks I was able to take a paid day off. After my 3 months I have 6 days which I am taking over Christmas. I didnt have to wait a year to take them.
Hope thats clearer for folks.
JonBoy's post is quite right. I think we just are talking at crossed purposes.
