Best Practices for Holidays? Let’s Find Out

By Compensation.BLR.com Editor Robert Brady

For years, BLR® has surveyed HR and compensation/benefits professionals to find trends in policy and practice. We appreciate your participation in our series of brief, targeted surveys. Today’s survey topic: Holiday Practices.

We’ll publish the results in a future issue, and we’ll also send you a PDF report. (Be sure to include your contact information where prompted.)

Please participate in this brief survey and together we’ll get answers to these questions and more:

• What are the specific plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas 2012?
• How many paid and/or unpaid holidays will your employees receive in 2013? Which holidays will be observed?
• What extra pay—if any—do your nonexempt employees receive when they work on a holiday?
• How do you decide which employees get priority in choosing their days off?
• If employees have unexcused absences before or after a holiday, do they receive still holiday pay?
• How have your holiday practices changed due to the recession?

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Please take this brief survey and see how your existing practices and future plans stack up against those of the country’s most successful companies. The survey takes only a few minutes and it will help you stay on top of your industry and keep your organization competitive.

By sharing your insights, opinions, and experience, you’ll help us highlight trends and define benchmarks—by industry, geographic location, and size of employer—that will inform your decision-making for the coming year. At the same time, you’ll find out how your fellow HR professionals are handling tricky benefits challenges, and you’ll be able to compare your practices with those of your competitors.

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Rest assured that all responses are confidential, and only aggregate findings will be published.

Thank you for your valued input. We’ll report on the results in a future issue—and rush you a PDF.

Robert Brady
Editor, Compensation.BLR.com
BLR – Business and Legal Resources

PS Here are some upcoming employee benefits surveys:

1. Perks
2. Retirement Benefits
3. Performance Management

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