假期通常是快乐的时期，对别人表达善意。发生假期时，您可能希望以赔偿的形式与员工分享假日欢呼。假期工资可以进入几种形式，通常取决于员工是否在假期工作。

假期是多少钱？

There are two ways you can give employees holiday pay.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not require you to provide time off (paid or unpaid) for federal holidays. However, you can choose to give your employees paid or unpaid time off on holidays.

If your employees do work on holidays, you should give employees at least their regular wages. You can also provide a premium holiday pay rate, although the FLSA does not require a premium rate.

How much is holiday pay?

How you pay employees on holidays will depend on if employees receive time off and if the employees are exempt vs. nonexempt.

If you give time off

If you have豁免员工(employees who don’t earn overtime), you must give the entire salary even if the employees use holiday time off. You must not reduce the salary for holiday time off. You do not have to include extra compensation for holiday pay.

If you have nonexempt employees (employees who earn overtime), you do not have to pay for the holiday time off. You only have to pay your nonexempt employees for time they work.

You can choose to give holiday pay to nonexempt employees. If you do provide paid holiday time off for nonexempt workers, the holiday time off does not count towardcalculating overtime hours。只有小时员工works count toward overtime.

For example, an employee works 40 hours and receives 8 hours of holiday time off in a workweek. Even though the total hours exceed 40 hours, the employee is not eligible for overtime because they only worked 40 of the hours.

If employees must work

How is holiday pay calculated if employees must work on the holidays? If you require employees to work on a holiday, you must give employees at least their regular rate of pay.

It is common to give employees premium pay if they work on a holiday. Typically,double-time pay被认为是保费支付。双重薪酬意味着您将员工支付双重定期hourly rates。因此，如果员工通常每小时赚10美元，同一员工每次均可获得20美元。

While some employees might work on the holiday, other employees might not. You do not have to give employees holiday pay if they do not work on that day.

Creating your holiday pay policy

You should create a holiday pay policy. Having a policy lets employees know what they are entitled to.

Things you might want to have in your holiday pay policy include:

• If employees get the day off or must work
• If employees are required to work a certain number of holidays each year
• Whether holiday time off is paid
• Holiday premium pay rate
• Holidays that apply
• 落在周末或一天员工的假期程序定期关闭
• If employees must work at the business for a certain length of time before the policy applies
• Differing holiday benefits for part-time employees
• State or local holiday pay laws

When creating your holiday policy, be consistent. You want to treat your employees fairly. You can have different policies for different employee groups, such as exempt, nonexempt, full time, and part time. You should not create a discriminatory policy that divides employees by race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.

Once you create a holiday leave and pay policy, you should include it in youremployee handbook。员工应该可以访问手册，以便他们可以查找您的业务的政策。

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This article is updated from its original publication date of 12/16/2011.