Holidays for 2008

Additional Day of Paid Leave

Under collective bargaining contract provisions, classified personnel employed on or before December 24, receive one additional day of paid leave (pro-rated for part-time employees) on the workday before or after Christmas Day, or the day before or after New Year's Day. If work requirements prevent an employee from taking one of these four days, the employee may use the day on another day prior to June 30, 2008. If the day is not taken by June 30, 2008, with supervisor authorization, it is forfeited.

In the past, the Governor has granted academic employees an additional day of paid leave in conjunction with Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's Day. These eight hours of additional paid leave (pro-rated for part-time employees) are granted to 12-month, unclassified employees employed on or before December 24. This leave may be used pre-Thanksgiving, the workday before or after Christmas Day, or the workday before or after New Year’s Day. Academic employees who are unable to be away from their duties to take the additional day of paid leave in the current year are allowed to use the paid leave until June 30, 2008. We will notify the campus should the Governor once again provide this additional day of paid leave to academic employees.

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Classified Employees Working Irregular Workweeks

It is the policy of the Oregon University System that full-time and part-time classified employees are to receive recognition for all of the above holidays. In order to provide the same number of holidays for all eligible employees, persons assigned irregular workweeks (other than Saturday and Sunday as regular days off) should be credited with compensatory time at a straight-time rate for all holidays that fall on their regular days off.

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Accounting for Time Worked on a Holiday

Classified employees are eligible to receive cash payment or compensatory time off for hours worked, calculated at a time-and-one-half rate, when they are required or allowed to work on days recognized as legal holidays.  Provisions governing holiday scheduling and holiday work compensation are contained in Article 42 of the Service Employees International Union Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Academic employees (FLSA exempt and non-exempt) who are required to work on a University recognized holiday are to be compensated for hours worked at the rate of time and one-half in the form of pay or compensatory time off at the discretion of their employing unit.

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Early Unit Closure Prior to the Start of a Holiday

Administrators and supervisors are responsible for providing adequate staffing coverage for normal operations prior to the start of a holiday.  Please be reminded that administrators do not have the authority to close their units without approval of the President or his designee.

Supervisors may authorize early release of classified staff as long as the employees record usage as vacation leave, personal leave, or leave without pay for the early release time taken.  Administrators cannot provide release time to classified staff outside the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.  FLSA non-exempt academic employees are also expected to report early leave usage to their supervisors for early release time taken.

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