Reply To: Are you required to Pay employees for Chol Hamoed?

While I dont know if the company is open or closed on Xmas, I suspect it might be open. Given who the owners are and where the place is located, I do suspect most of their customers do not celebrate xmas.

My friend does work on Sundays (Its a regular day for them)

I did also try to figure out how many employees this company has, If my friend was the only employee I would be more sympathetic to the employer, but It seems this company has 50 employees or more, It is not a small company.

While having a job is a privilege and not a right, Owning a company is also a priviledge not a right. One should treat your employees the proper way according to general custom. One MUST pay their employees on the books, One should offer benefits and pay that is the customary benefits and pay for a similar position no matter who you work for.

For the record I do get paid for Yom Tov and I get paid for Xmas and I have always been paid for these days. There have been a few times I worked Xmas, but I was paid extra for it.