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Employees and Religious Holidays? |
We own a small company in the state of Florida and have one employee. We give the "standard" holidays off but our employee celebrates many religious holidays and asks to take them off. ie: he just put in a request for 10 days off between now and the end of the year and has had at least that off from the 1st of the year 'til now. I know we are not required to pay him for these days off but are we legally required to allow him to take the days since they are part of his religious beliefs. In general he is a good, hard working employee so we want to accomodate him, but the days off are getting a bit excessive as we don't have anyone to fill in when he's not here. We'll probably let him have the time off, but just want to take the legalities into consideration too before we make a decision. You just basically answered your own question. We have legal holidays established by the Federal and the State government. Anything additional is company by company policy. You said your employee is a good worker then accommodate him but do let him know that it's a favor to him and it is granted on a case by case basis. His request should be noted that it will depend on the work loads and other people vacation plans. You don't want him to think that it is going to be the norm when it comes to his requests. Perhaps you should grant some days off and not some to break the trend; but do explain to him that he is needed and do appreciate his contributions. Seems like you already know how to handle him anyway. Source(s): fellow business owner and have managed subordinates in the past while working for multinational companies. You are doing exactly the right thing. You need to allow him to have the days off if they are religious, but you don't have to pay him. You can have him/her use their sick/vacation time before allowing unpaid time off being granted. If they use up their paid time off this will decrease the extra time off in addition to the holidays. But you are right to allow him/her have the time off due to religious accommodation. |
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