My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Massachusetts
Hi there-
I am a FT employee in the Health Care field. As part of my benefits package, I have PTO, sick time, and paid holidays. We have to work at least one major holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day) but we get compensated for each one regardless if we work or not. To figure out your holiday pay, they calculate average number of hours worked per day. So if I regularly work 6 and 7 hour days, I'll get somewhere around 6.5 hours pay.
Anyways, my regularly scheduled days off are Friday and Saturday. This year, Christmas was on Sunday. I called out sick on Wednesday. I have documentation of a doctors apt. I was told that I am loosing my holiday pay because "anyone who misses their last scheduled day before a holiday or next scheduled day after a holiday forfeits their holiday pay."
I'm wondering if this is legal. This policy even applied to people who work ON the holiday and miss the next scheduled day.
Extra info: holiday pay used to be bunched in with PTO. My company has since separated paid holidays and subtracted the amount from PTO total days. So it is an earned benefit. Doesn't that make that a wage? Does the MA Wage Act come into play? I understand this may be legal in other states but MA has additional laws that I hope will help me out.
Any info and resources will be great, I can't seem to find anything clear!

