text: if your work day gets canceled due to a state of emergency, are you entitled to that days pay? yesterday our company closed for the day due to flooding and a state of emergency declared in the county.  are we as employees entitled to receive the pay from yesterday due to the circumstances? check with labor laws in your state - they vary.  generally speaking, if it is not the choice of the company to close down (as in this case with the government making the declaration), then the company would not be responsible for payment to workers.