When are others "getting the day off" for New Years? Friday or Monday?

[Poet Lariat]

Just had a discussion with my boss regarding shutting down tomorrow for the New Years holiday. He says we do not get a day off. In my employee handbook, it states the "paid holidays", one of which is New Years Day which coincidentally falls on a Sunday. When I pressed him with this, he stated that "sorry" that's the way the cookie crumbles. When I pressed the issue of the Christmas holiday this year (we took Friday and Monday) with Christmas falling on a Sunday, he said "Christmas was a different matter".

What are other companies doing regarding this? I need ammo to show him the error of his thinking...

[alkaline9]

1. with my job, the day off always falls in the new year... so monday

We get a holiday for new years regardless if it falls on a weekday/weekend. The only rule the company follows is that the day off is jan 1st or later, since it is accounted for as a 2006 holiday. Good luck convincing your boss to let you have the long weekend :-)

[Poet Lariat]

4. Makes sense to me...

I think there is ample precedent to get "some" day off for this holiday. I'll go back and look at other major holidays to see what he's done in the past. Thanks for the $.02 worth. The "2006 holiday accounting" might make the difference.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

2. Neither

But I may call in on Monday, regardless.

[tjdee]

3. I got no days off for Christmas and New Years, but I am on vacation.

I hadn't taken any vacation, so I used this week as my vacation. If I hadn't, according to my "paid holidays" list, I wouldn't have had off for Christmas nor New Years, since both fall on a weekend. New Year's Eve is actually Saturday night, so there's really no *real* reason we need off for it.

[terrya]

5. I'm off Friday and Monday

We get New Years Eve and New Years Day off.

[bikebloke]

6. A change this year

Usually, we get the new year day off that corresponds with the day we have off for christmas the previous week. This year, we had Monday off for christmas and Friday off for New Year's. A three-day work week.

[Poet Lariat]

7. Thanks everyone

I see that there are no "standards" that would logically apply this year. I think I will be feeling poorly by Monday though...something going around my Grandsons daycare I suspect.