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10.31 Employee Holiday Schedule

A set schedule of sixteen (16) holidays will be observed during each fiscal year. The nonacademic holiday schedule is approved by the Board of Curators before the beginning of the fiscal year. These recognized holidays are listed: Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, Christmas Eve Day and Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve Day and New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Lincoln’s Birthday observed, Spring Recess Week (two days off), a free day designated on Good Friday, Memorial Day and Juneteenth.

All regular full-time and part-time employees who are employed at the time of a recognized holiday will receive time-off pay for the holiday. Temporary employees will not be paid time off for a holiday. Employees will receive their regular salaries or wages for any day on which there is a holiday and on which no work is required. Holidays which occur during an approved paid leave of absence will be paid. Holidays which occur during an approved unpaid leave of absence will not be paid.

Holidays observed by É«»¢ÊÓÆµ which occur on Sunday shall be observed on the following Monday; holidays which occur on a Saturday will be observed on the Friday immediately preceding the designated holiday.

On holidays all employees, except those engaged in essential services (Physical Plant operations, LUPD, University Farms, KJLU-FM, Page Library, and residential operations when the residence halls are open), are excused from duty. The essential services departments determine appropriate staff holiday schedules.

All full-time essential service employees who are normally scheduled to work on a holiday will be paid double time for performing their duties on that day.

Any essential services employees who do not work the holiday will be paid their regular rate for the holiday.

An essential services employees whose normal day off occurs on the holiday are entitled to that holiday and are entitled to received additional compensation equivalent to one day of pay at their regular rate.

Effective Date

Approved by Board of Curators: January 15, 2026