Legal Question in Business Law in California

Re: Legal holidays

There is no law that says your company has to give you any legal holidays off, paid or otherwise.

If they make you work overtime (more than 8 hours a day or 40 a week), they have to pay time and a half, and that's the law.

Re: Legal holidays

An employer doesn't have to give its employees paid holidays, but if it has agreed to do so in a union contract, an express contract with an employee, or by implied contract due to (for example) the language in a company policy manual, then the employee's right is enforceable as a civil matter (it would be a breach of contract to fail to give the holiday pay). I'd add that if the date a holiday is observed shifts the expected day off from Sunday to Monday, the employee is still entitled to a paid holiday unless the contract being relied upon states otherwise.