10.1 Authority. The Board of Trustees has authorized paid leave for 11 holidays and designated eight common holidays. The three additional days designated as floating holidays will be determined by each institution's Chief Executive Officer and communicated to the USNH Director of Human Resources by September 1 for the following calendar year.
10.2 Designated paid holidays. The following days are designated as common holidays, and all facilities will be closed except for essential operations: New Year's Day; Martin Luther King Day; Memorial Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Veteran's Day; Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
10.3 Eligibility. To receive paid holiday leave, a faculty/staff member must hold a status appointment; her/his appointment dates must encompass the holiday, and s/he must not be in a leave without pay situation immediately prior to or following a holiday. If a faculty/staff member is on paid leave when a designated holiday occurs, he or she will receive paid holiday leave, and the time will not be charged as vacation leave or earned time.
10.3.1 Percent time appointments. A faculty/staff member appointed in a status position of at least 50% time earns holiday benefits based on his/her percent time of appointment, based on the staff member’s working schedule and when the holidays fall. (See USY V.F.5.2)
10.4 Holidays occurring on weekends. For those faculty and staff members who normally work from Monday through Friday, the following applies: when a common holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is the official holiday, and when a common holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is the official holiday.
10.5 Special considerations for non-exempt operating staff. When a designated holiday falls on a full-time operating staff member’s regularly scheduled day off, he/she may take the same number of holiday hours off with pay during the same or following week; or, if approved by the supervisor, be paid for the holiday hours (see USY V.F.7.3.6) to which s/he is entitled at his/her usual pay rate. (For percent time staff see USY V.F.5.2.2.1)
10.6 Special considerations for exempt faculty/staff. If an exempt faculty or staff member is required to work on a holiday, s/he will be granted another day off with pay in lieu of the holiday at a time approved by the supervisor.