CompassOne Payroll

ANSWER: When you close due to inclement weather, nonexempt employees (those who are entitled to overtime) need to be paid only for actual hours worked plus any reporting time pay that might be required by state law.

You have the following options when it comes to if or how you pay nonexempt employees for time they missed:

📌 Pay them for the time, even though they didn’t work.
📌 Require they take the day off unpaid
📌 Require they use any available vacation time or paid time off (PTO)
📌 Allow them to choose between taking unpaid time off or using vacation or PTO

All four options have their merits. We generally recommend option 4, allowing nonexempt employees the choice of using vacation time or PTO.

What are the five things? Here they are but we recommend reading the full article.

1. They make time to truly connect
2. They give each other space to decompress first
3. They practice “silent togetherness”
4. They have shared rituals
5. They end the day with emotional and physical connection

I’m a psychologist who studies couples: People in the happiest relationships do 5 things in the evening—instead of watching TV Many couples default to watching TV after work. But psychologist and relationship expert Mark Travers says the happiest couples use their evenings in ways that invite a little bit of novelty.