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With a particularly brutal winter this year, IT Staffing companies (particularly IT recruiters Boston), IT contractors, and IT managers have all been dealing with a few more snow days than usual.  Though there are not a lot of concrete, universal rules about how employers will handle snow days, there are a few things IT consultants, and IT recruiters can pretty safely assume when it comes to snow days.

1. If you’re warned to stay off the road, your employer probably won’t hold it against you to ask to work remotely or stay home that day.  If you’re an essential employee, however, you should make plans to make sure you can still be at work in unsafe conditions.  (Stay over the night before, stay over after your shift, etc.)

2. You will be paid for the full week if you’re an exempt employee, even if your office closes.  You won’t be paid if you’re nonexempt.  Of course, if you worked from home during a snow day, you should get paid for the time you worked.

3. You may be required to use a vacation day if your office closes for a snow day.  While this is a massively unpopular move by employers, it is legal.

4. If  there are no warnings to stay off the roads, consider how often you’ve been absent lately before calling out for the day or asking to work from home.  If you’ve been absent frequently, it may be best to bite the bullet and deal with a long commute.