{"id":16956,"date":"2016-11-10T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=16956"},"modified":"2016-11-10T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:22:23","slug":"2016-christmas-holiday-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/11\/10\/2016-christmas-holiday-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Christmas Holiday Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

2016 Christmas Holiday Facts<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

By Bill Lewis<\/span><\/b>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The following Christmas Holiday facts are for APWU members and the information contained in the article is from the APWU Collective Bargaining Agreement.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I would like to share with everyone some of the questions and my responses to many questions relating to the upcoming Christmas Holiday.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

When is my Holiday?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>This year Christmas Day, December 25, 2016, falls on a Sunday and according to article 11 section 5.A, \u201cHoliday on Non-Work Day\u201d When a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be observed as the holiday. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

If Sunday is your normally scheduled workday then your holiday will be observed on Sunday, December 25. If Sunday is your non-scheduled day then your holiday will be Monday, December 26 and if Sunday \/ Monday are you non-scheduled days then your holiday is Saturday, December 24.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The 3-day holiday period for Christmas is December 24, 25 & 26.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The holiday schedule must be posted by December 20, 2016.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>This posting is mandated by article 11.6.A. The Employer will determine the number and categories of employees needed for holiday work and a schedule shall be posted as of the Tuesday preceding the service week in which the holiday falls. Do I get paid time and one half if my holiday is other then the actual holiday?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>All full time \/part time regular employees who work on the Christmas Holiday or the designated holiday will receive one and one half times (1 1\/2) the base hourly straight time rate for each hour worked.<\/span>\u00a0 \"christmas-mailbox\"<\/span><\/p>\n

A part-time flexible (ptf) employee, who works on December 25, shall be paid in addition to the employee\u2019s regular straight time hourly rate, one-half (l\/2) times the employee\u2019s regular straight time hourly rate for each hour worked up to eight (8) hours.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Do I receive an extra half (\u00bd) of day annual leave if I work the holiday?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>No, if you elect to be credited with annual leave instead of the holiday pay you will be credited with up to 8 hours of annual leave<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>All this provision of the contract does is allow you to switch the holiday leave pay for annual leave; you still get paid for the holiday work hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

Happy Holidays\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Bill Lewis
\n<\/span>President – APWU Local 1020<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2016 Christmas Holiday Facts By Bill Lewis\u00a0 The following Christmas Holiday facts are for APWU members and the information contained in the article is from the APWU Collective Bargaining Agreement.\u00a0 I would like to share with everyone some of the questions and my responses to many questions relating to the upcoming Christmas Holiday.\u00a0 When is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16957,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions\/16957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}