Holiday Pay Practices: Your Legal Requirements

The holiday season is a quiet time when you are a consultant. Not too many clients schedule events from Thanksgiving until mid-January. The challlenge, of course, is that half the people needed for meetings are taking PTO for vacation and to share the season with family. So, for an employer, the holiday season is challenging. Work moves forward but productivity usually suffers. Most everyone has fun times on their mind. See Ten Tips to Prevent Vacation Downtime for holiday planning tips. Holiday Pay Practices: Do You Know What Your Legal Requirements Are? will help you with U.S. pay questions you may have.

My Jewish friends are celebrating Hanukkah this week until the 23rd; holiday greetings to all. You may want to take Lisa Katz' Hanukkah Quiz: Who Wants to Be a Maccabee? I am mindful each year that millions of Americans don't celebrate Christmas; and even more of my readers worldwide do not celebrate Christmas either.

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"We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose." --Indira Gandhi