I would like to know if I am scheduled for a vaction lets say the week of the 4th of July my employer says that If I want to be paid for the 4th of July I would have to take this day as one of my vacation days. Yet the office is closed and all other employees are off and paid for that day. She says its because she has a policy of working the day before and the day after a holiday to be paid. Is this legal for her to do this? I dont understand that if I am already scheduled off for vacation. Also I was scheduled to be off on a Friday that I was going to take as a vacation day the employer decided to have a company picinic that day and since I already asked for this day as a vacation that was the only way I was to be paid for this day even tho she is going to shut the office down for the day for this picinic and all employees will be paid and it was not mandtory to attend the picinic is this ledgal for the employer to do? :confused:

Your post is confusing. The office is closed on July 4th, and all of the employees get paid "holiday" pay. However, you take a vacation day during the week, but you don't get holiday pay for the 4th? Is that what you mean? If so, which day(s) did you take vacation?

For the picnic question, yes, that is legal. The other employees are available to work that day, you aren't. If the boss changed their mind and opened the office that day, the others will be there - you won't.

The 4th of july lets say is on a Wednesday and I took of on Monday and Tuesday and off on Thursday and Friday if this is a paid holiday and I was already scheduled off on vacation why should I have to take the 4th as a vacation day? Also thanksgiving the day after is closed as a paid day off but if you want vacation that week you have to take the holiday and the day after as a vacation day or your not paid. Is this legal?

Many companies have a policy that, in order to get paid for the holiday, you must work the day before and after, or the day before OR after, etc. That is company policy, not something addressed by state or federal law.

The policy you describe is quite legal in all 50 states.