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In the United States employers are not required by law to pay you for holidays regardless of what day of the week the holiday falls on. If your employer provides you with holiday pay you are receiving a benefit and not an entitlement. Therefore, if your employer chooses to pay you holiday pay, it is at their discretion when, how, and which holidays you will be paid for.
The only reason that I know of that they can deduct pay for holidays is if there is something in the company rules that says you have to work the day before or after a holiday to get the holiday pay. Otherwise salary should not be deducted for any reason unless the employee agrees to take an unpaid leave of absense for some reason.
do self employed workers get holiday pay if they have worked for the same employer for years
Depends. Many people are salaries and do not get more 'wages' for more hours or for working on a holiday. Some people are in 'excepted service' which means they also do not get paid extra.
If the wages were not paid to you, then you didn't pay any taxes on them. You already got your deduction, you can't have a second one. If you are saying that your employer put wages on your W-2 that he didn't pay you, then ask your employer for a corrected W-2.
It depends on your employer's policies. Some pay holiday pay to everyone, whether or not they work. Others only pay for time on the clock, even though it is a holiday. So if the employer closes, you would have to make up your hours at another time.
No.
The payment of the employee's final wages is different from severance pay. Final wages are mandated by law to be paid -- an employee who is discharged must be paid all of his or her wages, including accrued vacation, immediately at the time of termination. On the other hand, severance pay is a special form of compensation from the employer. There is no law requiring an employer to offer or provide such. So in case of termination, the employee may receive both his final wages as well as a severance pay package (if provided by the employer).
Your employer payroll department would be the only ONE that can tell what your gross pay wages would have been before you received your net take home pay for the year.
From the employer to the employee no difference gross pay earnings and social security wages earnings would be the same thing.
Holiday pay is not required by law for private sector companies (e.g. non-government). If your employer chooses to pay you holiday pay, you are receiving a voluntarily-given benefit.
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