You live in Maine, so I don't understand why anyone should stay home for snow. I live in Alaska. Sometimes we get a foot of snow overnight. They have the highway plowed, but no one's neighborhood street is plowed for at least a day or two after a big storm. Everyone still goes to work. We get a few cancellations from so and so who lives on a steep hill or something, but work goes on. The snow day would be only if the highway wasn't plowed, and that would be an extreme event.
But, all that doesn't matter. The issue is there are just days in the winter that the forecast is so bad that most everything closes. And, we do get some storms where the snow plow guy can't keep the parking lot clear. People cancel the day before. And, the staff just isn't going to come in with a blizzard forecast. I mean you think of Alaska, and you think of 10 feet of snow. I am sometimes surprised that people freak out so much, but they do.
So, that brings us back to the main question. If the office has to close (making the entire staff come in to clean the office isn't going to happen), do you pay them?
