Local 134 Agreement

ARTICLE XII    AUTHORIZED UNIVERSITY HOLIDAYS

Section 12.1

1. A regular full-time employee whose standard workweek is thirty-five (35) or more hours shall be paid for authorized University holidays at his basic straight-time hourly rate for the number of hours normally worked by him on a regularly scheduled full work day.
   
   
2. A regular part-time employee whose standard workweek is between twenty (20) and thirty-five (35) hours shall be paid for authorized University holidays at his basic straight-time hourly rate for the equivalent in hours of an averaged workday, to be determined by dividing his regularly scheduled workweek hours by five (5).
   
   
3. An employee hired on a temporary basis or who is hired to work irregular hours without a fixed standard workweek shall not be paid for authorized University holidays regardless of the number of hours worked per week.

Section 12.2

An employee who is absent from work on a scheduled workday preceding or following a regular holiday, shall not receive pay for that holiday, unless such absence is previously authorized or subsequently approved by his supervisor. A bona fide illness is excusable. An employee on lay-off status or on leave of absence shall not be considered eligible for holiday pay.

Section 12.3

The authorized University holidays consist of eight (8) Regular Holidays and five (5) Personal Holidays. The eight (8) Regular Holidays are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Martin Luther King Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Whenever any of the Regular Holidays falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be considered an authorized holiday for those classifications whose normal work schedules do not include Saturday work. Whenever a Regular Holiday falls on Sunday, the following Monday shall be considered an authorized holiday for those classifications whose normal work schedules do not include Sunday work.

Section 12.4

An employee who is required to work on a Regular University Holiday shall be compensated therefore at two and one-half (2 1/2) times his basic hourly rate for a minimum of three (3) hours or the actual hours worked whichever is the greater.

Section 12.5

If a Regular University Holiday falls on a employee's regularly scheduled day off and the employee is eligible for paid holiday compensation as provided in this Article XII, he shall be given another day off with straight-time pay to compensate therefore within seven (7) calendar days preceding or fourteen (14) calendar days following the holiday. Such time off shall be counted as time worked in computing overtime hours for the week. If it is not possible to give him another day off within this period, he shall be paid extra straight-time compensation for the number of hours in a regularly scheduled workday, but such hours shall not count as hours worked in that workweek.

Section 12.6- Personal Holidays

In addition to the eight (8) Regular University holidays, each permanent employee who works twenty (20) hours or more per week, is eligible for the accrual of Personal Holidays. Personal Holidays are accrued by eligible employees as follows:

On January 1 of any calendar year: 2 Personal Holidays

On April 1 of any calendar year, 1 Personal Holiday.

On July 1 of any calendar year, 1 Personal Holiday.

On September 1 of any calendar year, 1 Personal Holiday.

Employees who have accrued Personal Holidays during their probationary period shall not be eligible to use such holidays unless and until they have completed their probationary period.

The Personal Holidays shall be taken on days chosen by the employee, subject to his having given a minimum of two (2) weeks notice and provided his absence on that day will not unduly hamper operations.

The employee who has one (1) or more Personal holiday accrued but not used may, subject to Departmental approval, use the day(s) as emergency day(s) off with pay when circumstances justify such use. When an employee wishes to make such use of the day(s) he must notify his department as soon as possible, in no case later than his schedule reporting time, and specify the reason for his absence.

It shall be each employee's responsibility to request his Personal Holidays observing the rules of his Department. Failure to request his holidays shall not entitle him to "carry over" holidays into the next calendar year nor entitle him to extra payment in lieu of the holidays. Departments will post notices of accrued, unused Personal Holidays during the first week of October of each year and employees will be required to schedule the dates of their remaining Personal Holidays not later than the second week of October each year.

An employee who is eligible for use of accrued vacation time may use a vacation day, subject to the same conditions, as a personal emergency day when he has not Personal Holiday accrued.

If, due to emergency reasons, a Department must ask an employee to forego his scheduled Personal Holiday within one (1) workweek of the scheduled day, the employee shall be paid time-and-one-half for hours worked on that day and his Holiday shall be rescheduled. If the Personal Holiday cannot be rescheduled during that calendar year the employee is entitled to an extra day's pay; hours thus paid for do not count as hours worked.

Employees who have completed their probationary period shall, upon termination or layoff be compensated for unused Personal Holidays within the calendar year in which such Personal Holidays were accrued.

An employee who is on layoff or leave of absence status on any of the above accrual dates shall not accrue the Personal Holiday for that date.