Local 73 Agreement

ARTICLE X    AUTHORIZED UNIVERSITY HOLIDAYS

Section 10.1

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/her basic straight-time hourly rate for the number of hours normally worked by him/her on a regularly scheduled full workday.
   
   
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/her basic straight-time hourly rate for the equivalent in hours of an averaged workday, to be determined by dividing his/her 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 10.2

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

Section 10.3

The authorized University holidays consist of seven (7) Regular Holidays and five (5) Personal Holidays. The seven (7) Regular Holidays are New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day following 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 and operational sections 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 and operational sections whose normal work schedules do not include Sunday work.

Section 10.4

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/her basic hourly rate for a minimum of three (3) hours or the actual hours worked, whichever is the greater, in addition to his/her regular holiday pay.

Section 10.5

If a Regular University Holiday falls on an employee's regularly scheduled day off and the employee is eligible for paid holiday compensation as provided in this Article X, s/he shall be given another day off with straight-time pay to compensate therefor within twenty-one (21) calendar days preceding or twenty-one (21) calendar days following the holiday. Such time off shall be counted as time worked in computing overtime hours for the week.

Section 10.6

In addition to the seven (7) University holidays, each employee who works twenty (20) hours or more per week is eligible for the accrual of Personal Holidays one such Personal Holiday may be requested for time off on the Martin Luther King Holiday in accordance with Section 10.7 below. Personal holidays are accrued by eligible employees as follows:

On January 1 of any calendar year, 2 Personal Holidays.

• One (1) of these two (2) holidays must be taken between January 1 and April 30. Employees opting for the King Holiday will use one of these personal holidays for that purpose.

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

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

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

Section 10.7

Any employee who wants to utilize one Personal Holiday as a Martin Luther King Day holiday, shall request such time from his/her supervisor in accordance with the departmental request/approval procedure, no later than the 31st day of December of the year immediately preceding the one in which the requested King holiday falls. The supervisor shall provide the employee with an answer to such request within five (5) working days following receipt of the request. If an employee requests the Martin Luther King holiday and is required to work on that day, the provisions of Sections 10.4 and 10.5 of this Article 10 shall apply to that employee.

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 periods.

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

The employee who has one (1) or more Personal Holidays 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. Such use will be limited to two (2) days per calendar year. When an employee wishes to make such use of the day(s) s/he must notify his/her department as soon as possible, in no case later than his/her scheduled reporting time, and specify the reason for his/her absence.

It shall be each employee's responsibility to request his/her Personal Holidays, observing the rules of his/her Department. Failure to request his/her holidays shall not entitle an employee to "carry over" holidays into the next calendar year nor entitle him/her to extra payment in lieu of the holidays. Departments will post notices of accrued, unused Personal Holidays during the first week of October 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.

If, due to emergency reasons, a Department must ask an employee to forego his/her 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/her Holiday shall be re-scheduled. 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 lay-off, 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.