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🚨 🚨ATTENTION Chicago employers!! Make sure you are aware of these changes to pto and sick leave that may impact your staff! #stayincompliance #hrconsulting #pto #sickleave #compliance #employeebenefits

Looking for some simple ways to buff up your #benefits package with more inclusive offerings? Floating holidays are one way to expand your time off options. We break down the essentials to know here: https://hubs.li/Q02P-3YZ0

Learn about floating holidays, their meaning, benefits, and how they help employees. Discover why tracking them effectively matters. Read More: https://lnkd.in/dYJZUKRk #whatisit #floatingholiday #holiday #vication ##vacation2025

That's what we're saying party cats - your company doesn't have to spend your party allowance strictly during Christmas. 🌴 Fancy a summer BBQ party during your quieter seasons? Or an Autumn get-together? Companies can use their party allowances on employees at ANY time of the year. It doesn't need to be season-specific either (although it does need to be a regular annual event). It's also possible to split the allowance per employee across two or more events in the year - it just means the total amount gets split. For example, if you chose to split £150/per employee across a BBQ party and Christmas party, there would be an allowance of £75/per employee at each party (it doesn't need to be a 50/50 split either). So, take your party pick - how will you spend your party allowance? Got more questions? Check out our party allowance blog in the comments for more info ⬇ #partyallowances #party #christmasparty #staffparty #company #event #benefits #taxallowances #taxbenefits #taxadviser #edinburgh #staff #employees #employer #companyperks

Today is a public holiday in the ACT. Behind that statement lies years of political pettiness. Let’s begin our story decades ago, when most people worked under an industrial award. While these were many and varied, they had common features. Depending on your particular industry, you got an extra holiday every year. Public sector employees got the day after Boxing Day - they still do. Finance sector employees got a Bank Holiday in early August - they still do. And everybody else - the factory workers and builders and bus drivers and shop attendants - had Trade Union Picnic Day. The trade unions took over a park and organised barbecues, with games and ice cream for the children. It was a family day out, in an era when not many people owned cars and a day off to enjoy with the family was not common. As we all got better paid, we all got cars, and people used their day off for their own family outing instead of joining the union day. By the late 1980s the picnic day was in the sights of employers. It was a paid day off, and it cost lots in penalty rates if employers wanted to keep their business open. During the 1990s, successive ACT governments removed the day and reinstated it, depending on their political affiliation. It got so petty that when John Howard embarked on his ill-fated overreach of Work Choices in 2004, he included a section that made it illegal to have a trade union picnic day in the ACT. The ACT had the last word, though: it had the power to declare public holidays. The (by now) Labor government introduced an additional public holiday for the ACT, to entrench picnic day. But picnic day had lost its appeal in its original form. It was also in early March, when we were already celebrating Canberra Day. Easter was soon after, and then Anzac Day. The calendar was already crowded with holidays in the first four months. For a while the holiday moved to Melbourne Cup Day on the first Tuesday in November. It made some sense since most offices and businesses had a big boozy lunch for the Cup anyway. But it led to a de facto long weekend - take the Monday off and you got 4 days off work. Then it moved to the end of September, labelled Family and Community Day. But that wasn’t popular either, since we already had the first Monday in October as a long weekend. Finally, it moved to the end of May, and changed its purpose. Now it marks the start of Reconciliation Week, and commemorates efforts to bring indigenous and non-indigenous Australians together. It occurs in the week that runs from the date of the 1967 referendum to the date of the Mabo decision. In its new guise it is a worthy addition to the calendar, and finally disposes of the decades of pettiness that have led us to this holiday.

Public Holidays: Calendar vs Reality? Have you noticed a difference between the public holidays you see on calendars and those defined in Sri Lanka's Shop and Office Act? From the second blog of our Shop and Office Act series, we tackle your questions: ✅Are "public holidays" on calendars the same as those in the Act? ✅How many paid public holidays do employees actually get? ✅Can your boss make you work on a public holiday? If so, what are your options? Stay tuned for the next as we delve into Poya holidays in Sri Lanka. https://lnkd.in/gUtNsYeS

🎄Christmas is just around the corner... 🎄 When it comes to Christmas and your business, there’s a lot to consider, so if you haven't started already, now’s the time to start planning. 🗓️🎅 Here are a few things you should be thinking about: 🎁 Holiday rotas and staffing needs 🎁 Payroll deadlines (don’t let the festivities cause delays!) 🎁 Employee well-being and managing stress levels 🎁 Planning your office festivities 🎉 (if that’s your thing!) 🎁 Wrapping up year-end tasks before the holiday rush Starting early ensures you’re ahead of the game and can enjoy the season without last-minute panic. ✅✨ Let me know if you’d like support sorting your business Christmas checklist—I’m here to help! 🎄🤝 #ChristmasPlanning #HRChecklist #FestiveSeason #TeamSupport #SmallBusinessHR #Thanet

I would love to know! -have you ordered all your corporate holidays gifts for the fast-approaching 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬? If you don't want to admit anything publicly ( 😅 ), feel free to DM me and I'll keep it a secret. 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑: 🎄 Christmas = Wednesday, Dec. 25 🕎 Chanukah = Wednesday, Dec. 25 -Thursday, Jan. 25 🕯 Kwanzaa = Thursday, Dec. 26 - Wednesday, Jan. 1 🎇 New Years = Wednesday, Jan. 1 See that? These major holidays overlap! 😮 😬 There's a lot to do. If you haven't even begun thinking about your company's Holiday Gifts - good news! 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑨-𝒁. Ready? Let's. Go. 🥂 -Carrie #business #sales #humanresources #clientappreciation

Consider this your annual reminder of the upcoming Jewish holidays, and please refrain from scheduling meetings on Rosh Hashanah (October 2-4). It's hard enough to be Jewish in Corporate America; we're effectively treated as cultural artifacts, with the burden of recognition placed on employees. I once had a leader minimize my concerns that meetings were scheduled on Yom Kippur (arguably the holiest day on the Jewish calendar) by likening it to the way Greek Orthodox Easter or Christmas was not the same as other denominations. Nope. Not the same. Our holidays rarely land on corporate calendars, days off often come at the expense of PTO for observance. If you boast about DE&I, treat this as a core element and give time off without penalty or PTO deduction to employees celebrating these High Holy Days. I always spend the time on Rosh Hashanah making my own challah, so here's a picture from last year manifesting for the same success this year.

How much do I get paid for public holidays? If a public holiday falls on the day that the employee would ordinarily work, s/he must be paid the daily rate plus whatever amount earned from the hours worked during that public holiday. If the employee works on the public holiday on which s/he would not ordinarily work, that employee must be paid double his daily rate.