Weather Closures?

zamboni00 · February 2014

Do you have a job that is considered 'essential?' Does your work ever close for inclement weather?

If so, do you get paid or do you have to use PTO?

kushie77 · February 2014

As a nurse we're are essential. However being as I have an administrative position and work in ambulatory care we close for bad weather. We get paid if they elect to close.

Melissa51212 · February 2014

I work for an university so we close and get paid. My h does not get paid if they close, well take a PO day he doesn't get many, so snow sucks

leopardgurl831 · February 2014

We don't close like schools do, but if there is a stay off the road snow emergency we might close. I do get paid :-)

adventureisoutthere · February 2014

I'm a legal assistant, in the prairies in Canada. Things don't close. If it gets cold enough, the school buses might not run, and classes will be cancelled, but the schools won't close. The teachers are expected to try and get there and parents can drop kids off. I've never had a snow day in my life.

zamboni00 · February 2014

What about other extreme weather- not just snow?

My old job would NEVER close. I worked for a large international payroll company, with the capability to shift all processing and calls to any other branch in the country. No matter what, they would be open.

If a bad storm was expected, they would put people up in a hotel down the road to ensure they would make it in the next morning. We lost power during Sandy, and they were still open.

No one could really do anything, but they were open anyway.

This job told me not to come in today due to the icy roads.. Such a difference!

bpphoto785 · February 2014

NOPE! My agency has state contracted childcare so in order for us to close we have to prove roads are dangerous and impassable. Which is more or less impossible. If we were to close we wouldn't get money from the state. I could do work from home, but no one else really can, so I have to go in. If staff doesn't show up, they don't get paid (hourly) or they they have to use vacation time (salary).

mancila60 · February 2014

We will close in a heartbeat. Even though I could technically do my job our technicians can't do their work because they drive on the roads all day so it's not safe. Also our whole town shuts down so you might as well just be at home. We get paid for it.

geojam224 · February 2014

I work at a daycare (newborn to 4-year-olds) which would close if the building lost heat or AC or something, but I've never seen them close. But since I'm a school age teacher (K - 5th grade) we rent the cafeteria in the elementary school. So as a school age teacher, I get snow days if the school board calls off. I only get paid if I use vacation or sick time. I don't accumulate them very fast, and we've already had 4 snow days, so I'm choosing to take a few of them unpaid...

adventureisoutthere · February 2014

The only 'extreme' weather we get is cold and snow. Icy roads, stuff is still open, 100km/h winds, yup still open. We've had windchills of -50 Celsius this year, on more than one occasion, it's off to work we all go. The oilfield companies will shut down, because it's unsafe to be outside, but if you work inside, 95% of places will expect you to be there

court115 · February 2014

We rarely close. My bosses live within a mile of the office so opening the office is never a problem for them. We can stay home if we really want to but we have to use PTO.

mildlymailyn · February 2014

I am also a legal assistant. Our office has closed early and they are pretty good with letting people come in early but we have never closed.

lemlemlem · February 2014

I work for the schools, so we get weather closures. Whenever there are closures I still get paid, just like any other day. We close for snow, if there is thick fog, or extremely cold temperatures. When the schools are closed too much in the winter student's have to make up days or time, but this usually doesn't effect me. I work for a program that services the whole county and our contracted year is longer than most of the local schools.

toothpastechica · February 2014

I work in a shelter...we never close, especially not for weather, the worse the weather, the more essential we become.

Along52612 · February 2014

We work at Disney so the only time we would close for weather would be if there was a hurricane.. Not sure how it would work for pay wise probably only the high ups would get it payed.

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