Holiday pay at Walgreens

[gradintern]

How does holiday pay at a place like Walgreens work, for a pharmacist? I only work part-time, but I noticed I've gotten holiday pay even when I'm not working on the actual holiday, so is it if you're working the same week, day before or after or what? Does it make a difference if it's the actual day? Is it calculated at time and a half or what? Thanks!

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[genesis09]

If you work the holiday, you'll get holiday pay and your regular salary. You qualify for holiday pay if you work your schedule shifts before and after the holiday. The holiday pay is based on your average daily salary. Wal-net will have the nitty gritty details on holiday pay.

 

[gradintern]

If you work the holiday, you'll get holiday pay and your regular salary. You qualify for holiday pay if you work your schedule shifts before and after the holiday. The holiday pay is based on your average daily salary. Wal-net will have the nitty gritty details on holiday pay.

Thanks! So just to double check (I tried to look this up on store net but though they referred to holiday pay, there was no actual link), if my average daily hours are 2 hours and I work my scheduled shifts before/after the holiday, I will get one and a half my hourly rate times two hours, added extra on to my paycheck. But if I work on the actual holiday, I will get time and a half for that entire e.g. 8-hour shift, right?

 

[gradintern]

And here's one more question: I've heard that floater pharmacists get paid for driving time if the driving time is above half an hour from their home store. So if the store you are going to is more than half an hour away, do you get paid for just the time beyond half an hour or the whole driving time from your home store including that first half hour?

 

[genesis09]

The driving rules vary by district, please contact your supervisor for your area's rules. You could get reimbursed in my market if you drove >10 miles from your home store.
Your holiday pay will be two hours of work. Your salary from the holiday is just regular pay.

As a salaried employee, your Holiday Pay is calculated as replacement pay based on your normal pay period salary. Holiday pay for hourly employees is calculated as follows:

* If the employee works on a holiday, the employee will receive his/her regular rate of pay for hours actually worked on the holiday, plus Holiday Pay.
* If a holiday falls on the employee's normally scheduled day off, he/she will receive Holiday Pay for that day.
* The employee's Holiday Pay is calculated based on his/her average hours worked per week (average weekly hours divided by five, and then multiplied by the employee's hourly wage rate).

If you are required to work on a holiday, or if your regularly scheduled day off coincides with a holiday, you are given the choice of the equivalent of one additional day's pay or one additional day off during the same pay period, subject to business needs and subject to the following special rules:

* This does not apply to store managers.
* This additional day of pay is generally calculated as 1/10th of your bi-weekly salary (or one day's worth of your monthly salary).
* For overnight pharmacists, Holiday Pay is calculated as replacement pay (1/7th of bi-weekly salary) for holidays not worked.
* For non-overnight pharmacists, if you take one or more vacation days within the same holiday pay period, in lieu of Holiday Pay, one vacation day is reinstated.

 

[gradintern]

The driving rules vary by district, please contact your supervisor for your area's rules. You could get reimbursed in my market if you drove >10 miles from your home store.
Your holiday pay will be two hours of work. Your salary from the holiday is just regular pay.

Thank you very much!