PAID HOLIDAYS

The College ensures that full-time College employees with similar contracts enjoy the same number of paid holidays.

Adopted: November 19, 1981
Revised: February 28, 1985
Reformatted: October 7, 1986
Reformatted: April 2012

Procedure 4530D

PAID HOLIDAYS

Full-time College employees are paid for regular holidays according to their term of employment.  Under certain conditions, an employee may not be paid for a holiday, but if a paraprofessional works on a holiday, they will receive extra pay.

Holiday Schedule

The number of paid holidays varies according to the length of the employee’s term of employment:

                                                9 month          10 month        11/12 month

M.L. King Jr. Day                          1                       1                          1
Spring Break                              N/A                     3                          3
Memorial Day                               1                       1                          1
Labor Day                                     1                       1                          1
Thanksgiving                                3                       3                          3
Christmas                                  N/A                      2                          2
New Year’s Day                         N/A                      1                          1
Independence Day                    N/A                   N/A                         1

Observation of Holidays

For full-time employees working a 40-hour week, Monday through Friday, holidays will be observed on the day they occur unless they occur on a weekend.  If a holiday falls on Saturday, it will be observed on the preceding Friday.  If a holiday falls on a Sunday, it will be observed on the following Monday.

Employees may observe special religious holidays with the advance approval of their supervisor.  The employee can take such a day off as personal or vacation leave or as leave without pay.

Unpaid Holidays

The College will not pay employees for holidays that:

• Precede the first day worked after being hired,
• Occur during a leave without pay.

Also, in order to receive holiday pay, a terminating employee must work at least one day subsequent to the holiday.

Paraprofessionals Working on a Holiday

If a supervisor requires a non-exempt full-time paraprofessional to work on a regularly scheduled holiday, that employee will receive twice the normal pay for that work.  If that employee does not report to work, pay for that holiday will be forfeited unless the absence is excused by the supervisor.

Adopted: November 19, 1981
Revised: February 28, 1985
Reformatted: October 7, 1986
Reformatted: April, 2012
Revised: July 31, 2022