I am paid for all my stats so I try to schedule my vacations the week before a stat holiday weekend so that I have 10 days off total and go back to work for a 4 day week that is paid in full, but I've had one unpaid week off before that. Hope that makes sense!

However, in the fall I'm on vacation and flying away to Europe with the stat day falling during my unpaid time off. So I have advised my clients that the stat day will be used the next Monday after I return (jetlag recovery day) so that I will once again be coming back to work a 4 day week but to be paid for a full week.