Illinois Chamber has released the results from its annual Holiday Survey which indicates how Illinois employers and their employees will be handling paid holiday periods in 2010.
“The Chamber’s Annual Holiday Survey is a useful tool for many Illinois businesses in helping employers determine holiday benefits for employees, trends across various industries, and how to handle emerging ethnic holidays. With more than 500 businesses responding from throughout the state, this is the largest response we have had and the results should prove substantial,” said Gloria Guy, Vice President for Business Services for the Illinois Chamber.
Holidays most likely to trigger holiday questions in 2010 are Christmas and New Year’s Day because they fall on Saturdays. Many employers responded that they will be either giving the Friday before each holiday off or their staff will have two “floating” holidays during the year since these popular holidays are on weekends.
According to the results, the following industries were represented:
- Manufacturing - 26.3%
- Services - 16.3%
- Finance/Banking - 2.1%
- Retail Trade - 4.2%
- Wholesale Trade - 4.8%
- Insurance/Real Estate - 5.0%
- Utility/Transport/Communications - 3.8%
- Construction - 4.2%
- Non-Profit/Association/Chamber of Commerce - 22.1%
- Other - 11.1%
Holidays included in this survey are:
- New Years Day - Friday, January 1
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Monday, January 18
- Lincoln’s Birthday - Friday, February 12
- President’s Day - Monday, February 15
- Washington’s Birthday - Monday, February 22
- Pulaski Day - Monday, March 1
- Good Friday - Friday, April 2
- Memorial Day - Monday, May 31
- Independence Day - Sunday, July 4
- Independence Day - Monday, July 5
- Labor Day - Monday, September 6
- Columbus Day - Monday, October 11
- Election Day - Tuesday, November 2
- Veterans Day - Thursday, November 11
- Thanksgiving - Wednesday, November 24
- Thanksgiving - Thursday, November 25
- Thanksgiving - Friday, November 26
- Christmas - Friday, December 24
- Christmas - Saturday, December 25
- New Year’s Eve - Friday, December 31
- Other - Employee Birthday
- Other - Jewish Holidays (1 or more days)
- Other - Ethnic Holidays (Ramadan, Kwanzaa, etc)
The mission of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce is to aggressively advocate the interests of business to promote prosperity and opportunity for the citizens of Illinois. The Illinois Chamber of Commerce is a pro-business advocacy membership organization representing the state’s employers at the Capitol on issues of economic development and jobs, employment law topics such as workers’ compensation and healthcare, business taxes, and infrastructure investment.
**To view the full results with each specific industry’s answers, please visit our results PDF file: Full results here!**
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