Vital Sign Home Care - Employee Handbook 2023

Section 3 - Benefits

3-1 Paid Holidays

Medicaid caregivers are not eligible for paid holidays.

Private Duty employees and office staff will be paid for the following holidays:

1. New Year's Day 2. Memorial Day 3. Independence Day 4. Labor Day 5. Thanksgiving Day 6. Day after Thanksgiving 7. Christmas Day

When holidays fall or are celebrated on a regular work day, office employees will receive one (1) day's pay at their regular straight-time rate.

If a holiday falls within an eligible employee's approved vacation period, the eligible employee will be paid for the holiday and no vacation time is deducted for that holiday.

Private Duty caregivers who work a company holiday will be paid at 1.5 time their regular rate of pay for the hours worked that day.

3-2 Paid Vacations (Office-based employees only)

Full-time office-based employees accrue paid vacation time as follows:

- During the first year of employment and the first five (5) calendar years of employment, full time employees accrue up to 10 days of vacation per year. Vacation is accrued every pay period throughout the year. - Thereafter, full-time employees accrue up to 15 days of vacation per year.

The vacation entitlement for part-time employees is pro-rated based on hours worked.

Vacations should be taken during the year it is earned. Accrued, unused vacation time can be carried over to the following calendar year. While on leave, office staff shouldn’t work for another employer.

Employees may not borrow against future vacation accrual. They can only use what they have already accrued at the time of the start of the leave. Leave (vacation, sick, personal days) is not considered time worked and doesn’t count for the purpose of overtime calculation for non -exempt employees. For example, an employee takes 8 hours of leave on Monday and works 40 hours between Tuesday and Sunday. No overtime is due since the number of hours worked during week doesn’t exceed 40.

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