I have a question regarding holidays.

A company states in their handbook that they recognize 6 paid holidays. It says to be eligible the employee must have been employeed there for 90 days. Holiday pay benefits are equal to the employee's base hourly rate times the number of hours the employee is regularly schedule to work per day. And they must work the day before and after the holiday.

My question is this:
Is it reasonable to say that if the day is one that is the normal scheduled day off for the employee... oh well? They do not get extra pay or an extra day off? However, employees who have a 2 different days off get this as their third (for their paid holiday)?

Just curious as I know someone who this happening to.

It is perfectly reasonable in my opinion. Holiday pay is intended to make an employee whole when they miss work due to a holiday. If they would not be working on the holiday anyway and did not miss anything, what is there to make whole?

My problem with it is that one employee will get 3 days off and another will only get 2 and get paid the same.

Or, if they do work on the holiday they get time and a half and their 2 days off while the other person still only gets 2 days and no extra pay while this is considered a paid holiday.

I was just curious on others thoughts. Thanks!

I have seen companies who will give such employees the option to take another day off, say within the next month. It's an option.

Agree with cbg. My company in NJ, and my former company in PA had similar provisions. If your normal day off is Thursday, and Christmas and New Year's turn out to be on a Thursday, you haven't lost out on anything.

Yes, the other people who work on the holiday will get time & a half if they work, and a paid day off if they don't. But how does that affect you? Just feeling like "it's not fair" does not mean you've been harmed in any way.

Besides, most holidays float around each year; so next year, or the next holidday, you may benefit from the policy while those others will not.