Statutory Holidays

[Inspired by Reggio]

I am closed Easter Monday ... initially I took it as an 'unpaid' day because it was important to me to be closed this day to be with my family ... I do get paid for it now though because in lieu of raising my fees for two years I added 10 paid personal days to my contracts ... so I take this day as one of my paid personal days and use the others for sick days or appointments I cannot make after hours and so forth and if I have any 'left over' as the year end approaches I apply them to the week between Xmas and New Year where I am closed as well and there are days that are not 'stat' so would be normally unpaid closures as well ... works well for me and clients seem to 'get' that if they were not paying me for these days they would be paying a 'higher fee' every other day anyway - so in the end it works out the 'same'