The engineering company I work for makes it's money by the hours that the employees work. When the employees don't work we in turn are not making any money. We offer a four day work week and then in turn don't pay our employees for any holidays or sick time. They are basically paid for the time that they are here. Does anyone have any suggestions I can take to the President of the company to get better benefits for the employees?

The real question is pay scale relative to the industry. Assume 10 days vacation, 10 holidays, so out of (365-104) or 261 days, you would work 241 days. Free time is 8.3% of working time (20/241)

In your case you are working 52X4 or 208 days which means everyone has 53 days a year off (plus weekends). This is 25.5% of working time (53/208).

You hav 33 days more off than the 'industry'. SO if your pay rate is x% more than average, you ARE being paid for vacations and holidays and sick time.

The percentage could be figured as 241/208 or 16% more.