Section A. Designated Holidays.

Permanent full-time employees shall be allowed eight hours paid absence from work on the following holiday dates, except as provided herein.

New Year's Day	Veteran's Day
(January 1)	(November 11)

 

Martin Luther King Day	Thanksgiving Day
(3rd Monday in January)	(4th Thursday in November)

 

President's Day	Thanksgiving Friday
(3rd Monday in February)	(Day after Thanksgiving)

 

Memorial Day	Christmas Eve Day
(Last Monday in May)	(December 24)

 

Juneteenth	Christmas Day
(June 19)	(December 25)

 

Independence Day	New Year's Eve Day
(July 4)	(December 31)

 

Labor Day
(1st Monday in September)

 

 

In the discretion of the Employing Department, employees whose regular assignment is in a non-continuous operation, is dependent upon interaction with the administration, the courts, or employees outside the Bargaining Unit, and who work a regular Monday through Friday schedule, will observe the contractual holiday on the same day as that designated by the Civil Service Commission for similarly situated administrative employees.

Section B. Eligibility.

Permanent full-time employees, regardless of work schedule, qualify for paid holiday absence by being in full pay status:

1. (Continuing Employee) The employee's last scheduled work day immediately preceding the holiday and the first scheduled work day immediately following the holiday when both days fall within the same biweekly work period; or
2. (Separating Employee) The employee's last scheduled work day immediately preceding the holiday when the holiday occurs or is observed on the last scheduled work day of the biweekly work period; or
3. (New Employee) The employee's first scheduled work day following the holiday when the holiday occurs or is observed on the first scheduled work day of the biweekly work period. If a holiday occurs or is observed on the first scheduled work day of a new or returning employee's initial biweekly work period, such employee shall not qualify for paid holiday absence for that day.

An employee who is scheduled or required to work on a contractual holiday, but who fails to report for and perform such assigned work without reasonable cause, shall not be eligible to receive holiday pay for such holiday. An employee shall not be eligible for both holiday absence pay and any other form of paid leave on a contractual holiday.

An employee on a disciplinary suspension shall not lose his/her holiday eligibility solely as a result of the scheduling of the suspension.

Section C. Work on a Holiday.

The Employer may require employees to work on a paid holiday. The Employer specifically reserves the right to determine the nature and level of work to be performed on paid holidays, as well as the sole discretion to schedule or not schedule employees on such paid holidays.

The Department of Health and Human Services shall not schedule below the established minimum Forensic Security Assistant staffing level. In the Department of Corrections appropriate staff levels above the applicable full staffing Scheduling Plan shall be scheduled on those paid holidays when additional activities associated with observance of the holidays are scheduled.

Employees required to work on a holiday shall have such day treated as a regular workday.

Employees who are in pay status for more than 80 hours in a work period as a result of such holiday shall have the time in excess of 80 hours in a pay period treated as regular overtime work.

Section D. Equivalent Allowance.

Permanent employees who regularly provide less than full-time service are entitled to paid holiday absence in proportion to the time actually worked in accordance with current practice.