There may be company or labor department policy that weekends and holidays are paid differently regardless of your willingness to do otherwise. Some seemingly pointless policies do have logic behind them. Even if at the end of the day the logic seems pointless as well.
Reminds me of when I worked at a building a block about from corporate HQ. It was a rule that you had to wear a tie anywhere in the building. Since we were technically “off-site” it didn’t apply to us (and we were IT, besides), but a lot of the guys liked to go down to the cafeteria at HQ for lunch (it was actually a good cafeteria). So, one of the guys had a hanger on the back of his door with a selection of ties on it. Pick one up on your way out!
Yeah, we were never officially given time off for OT worked (since we were “management” and not allowed OT pay) because if we did anything on that “day off” and got injured, we were still officially working that day and could apply for Worker’s Comp. I don’t know if that ever happened in the history of the company.
Decades ago, I worked with a fellow whose previous job, doing IT work at a clothing manufacturer, similarly required a necktie. He usually forgot one - but would go onto the manufacturing floor and swipe one.
He had a huge collection of ties by the time I met him.
I work for a firm (which purchased the consulting division of one of the Big 8 accounting firms). In my early years at the accounting firm, suits were very much the norm for both men and women - and for the women, skirt suits, not pantsuits. I saw one of the few female partners wearing a very nice tailored pantsuit, once, in the early 1990s, but that was pretty unusual. We were also not supposed to wear our sneakers while commuting into the office.
There was one partner (older male, as you could guess) who would chew women out if he caught them coming into the office area - it looked unprofessional, dontcha know. Yeah, asshole, YOU try riding the Metro in pumps! a year or so after that, I was on a project in Manhattan, and it was somewhat of an office joke that all the females had piles of dress shoes under their desks - of course. We all wore our sneakers to commute, like any sane person. Old White Male was retired by then, and never visited that project anyway.
When I came back from maternity leave in 1995, I just started wearing pantsuits - always a jacket and dress slacks. The dress code gradually went downhill over the next couple of decades, though it was a long time before “business casual” meant anything less than at least a sweater and nice slacks. Nowadays, while I don’t think shorts would quite fly, I’ve seen women wearing capris to work.
Not that it matters right now, as I’ve been known to work most of the day in my pajamas 
Wow. That seems illegal as hell!
I knew people whose company would not let them add vacation time onto a holiday week. So if you wanted time off that included a holiday in the middle, or at either end, you couldn’t take, say, 4 vacation days and 1 holiday - you had to take 5 vacation days. Not sure if they got otherwise compensated for that last holiday.
Sounds like something a Japanese company would do.
Regarding holiday pay, the last company I worked for would ask for volunteers on the holidays. If it was a normal work day for you, you’d get the holiday pay, same as those taking the day off got, plus time and a half for actually working the holiday. Sweet deal, getting 2.5x pay for perhaps a half dozen calls.
Then several of us more experienced people were asked if we’d cross-train on taking Canada calls so we could field them when their queue got too big. It turned out that they were perpetually under-staffed so instead of being occasional, about a third of our calls were Canadian. No big deal as a call is a call and it just meant we’d be taking 35 or so US calls instead of 50, something for the bosses to worry about.
Then came the 4th of July. Since we hadn’t thought it through, three of us cross-trained agents volunteered and you can guess what happened. Since it’s not a holiday in Canada they had their usual backed up queue and we three took the usual 50 calls that day, all Canadian, while the five who were with us took the usual half-dozen.
We went to the boss, pointed that out, and said we would no longer volunteer for holidays unless we were taken off of the Canadian queue that day. He said, “No,” so we didn’t volunteer again, even on the holidays where we lined up with our northern cousins, Christmas and New Year.
No, no weekend policies re pay. I sometimes need to work weekends or after hours to do server stuff. No pay differences. Just adjust your hours - If you need to work Saturday, take Friday off.
TPTB think they are keeping us from being stressed out and working too hard. When in reality working a few hours on a weekend once in a while is a great stress reliever. Get something done when you will not be interrupted. Get it done when an idea pops into your head that you want to look at. Get it done when you have a few hours to kill.
I think what is worrisome for them is that people may go over 40 hours in a week that requires overtime. I don’t, I never ask for or want overtime.
Working from home is a big game changer for everyone. I think that TPTB are still trying to adjust to it. I have.
Really, I have a great boss, and we have a really great team.
This might be the issue - if you are in a non-exempt position ( that is, a position that requires time and a half for hours over 40) , the employer is responsible for paying that time and a half if they know you worked it - regardless of whether you asked for it, wanted it and even if they explicitly told you that you were not to work more than 40 hours and you ignored those instructions.
I don’t believe this is on topic for this thread! 
Yeah, talk about threadshitting! 
Never had to deal with that, but I recall one company I worked for (let’s call it “BlahTech”), where an executive with too much time on his hands declared that we were all adherents of the “BlahTech Religion.”
That did not go over well. The religious employees pointed to the Ten Commandments, with “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” The atheists were extremely offended. Those of us with no particular preference or care looked at it as something to ignore, made up by an idiot executive with too much time on his hands.
But there was a huge backlash, from every employee, and the idiot executive’s idea quietly died within a week.
Swiss law requires minimum 2 weeks of vacation.
The holiday entitlement for a given year of service is generally granted during that year; at least two weeks of holiday must be taken consecutively.
For inane practices, I would like to offer spam emails. Which are theoretically not spam, but they are training emails, sent by IT, for all the employees to learn how to recognize pfishing.
I wish I was making this up. And when I don’t report any of the the emails, I get an email from my IT reminding me to participate.
Report the latter as suspected phishing.
That reminds me.
I received two passwords in plain text from IT.
For a system I do not use and have never used.
So I reported it. Sending passwords in emails is not permitted. Sending passwords to someone who did not request them is not permitted. Sending passwords to someone who has never used the system is not necessary.
IT did not understand why I was sending an email.
We do that, but if you click on the link, it goes to a site that warns about phishing and to avoid clicking on links. Nothing happens if you ignore it. If you report it, you get congratulations.
Seriously???
Have you paid ANY attention to the news over the last several years?
Teaching people how to recognize phishing emails is the exact opposite of “inane.” Attitudes like yours are one of the main reasons why hackers are able to do so much damage.
Someone decided “Waterboarding Coordinator” was a little too agressive
Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
Sounds like being in the Navy.
We’ve got a phishing button on our email program, so it’s easy to report. You don’t have to think about who to report it to or what to say, just hit the button.
Usually, the “training” phishmail matches the training videos we’ve had to listen to. The congratulations, good job reply feels a little like being patted on the head, but it reinforces the training.
My father tells me of someone making a fake-serious announcement at a meeting that 40% of sick days were being taken on Mondays and Fridays. The boss went on since tirade about people cheating/faking.
I think this was the same one who didn’t understand why three serial processes with 90% efficiency didn’t have an overall 90% efficiency.