RED ALERT - 2025 DMCA Piping Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year Holiday Pay

Below are the holiday time off and premium pay provisions for the upcoming 2025 Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and 2026 New Year’s Day for all three Local 300 Plumbing & Piping areas. Holiday pay is required only if the employee works on the holiday. Therefore, the following provisions only discuss the premium pay provisions for hours worked on these holidays and/or the days that are designated as the holidays.

PIPING – BISMARCK – MINOT AREA:

Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day are all unpaid holidays. Employees must be paid at two (2) times the base taxable wage rate for any work performed on November 27^th, December 25^th, and January 1^st.  

PIPING – FARGO AREA:

Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day are all unpaid holidays. Employees must be paid at two (2) times the base taxable wage rate for any work performed on November 27^th, December 25^th, and January 1^st. 

The Fargo Labor Agreement allows employees to choose one of the following as an optional unpaid holiday:

• Opening day of deer hunting season in North Dakota (Friday, November 7^th)
• Veterans Day (November 11^th)
• the day after Thanksgiving (November 28^th) 

If an employee chooses the day after Thanksgiving as an optional unpaid holiday and the employee works on either or both days – the employee shall receive two (2) times the base taxable wage rate for hours worked.

PIPING - SOUTH DAKOTA:

Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day are all unpaid holidays. Employees must be paid at two (2) times the base taxable wage rate for any work performed on November 27^th, December 25^th, and January 1^st.

Employees working for companies (contractors) that are closed the day after Thanksgiving may choose to take the day after Thanksgiving as an unpaid holiday instead of Veteran’s Day. If they choose the day after Thanksgiving as the unpaid holiday, hours worked that day (the day after Thanksgiving) would be paid at two (2) times the base taxable wage rate.

Please call the Dakotas Mechanical Contractors Association office if you have any questions concerning the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's holidays.

cc: Local 300 Offices – Bismarck/Minot, Fargo, and Sioux Falls