Holidays

CITY HOLIDAYS

Most City employees are permitted time off with pay on the following holidays:

• New Years Day -- January 1 (see note)
• Martin Luther King Day -- Third Monday in January
• Good Friday -- Friday before Easter Sunday
• Memorial Day -- Last Monday in May
• Independence Day -- July 4 (see note)
• Labor Day -- First Monday in September
• Thanksgiving Day -- Fourth Thursday in November
• Day after Thanksgiving Day -- Fourth Friday in November
• Last normal workday before Christmas Day (see note)
• Christmas Day -- December 25 (see note)
• Last normal workday before New Year’s Day (see note)

NOTE: Whenever Independence Day (July 4) falls on a Saturday, it is celebrated on the preceding Friday. Whenever New Year’s Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4) or Christmas Day (December 25) fall on Sunday, they are celebrated on the following Monday.

Regardless of your particular work schedule, you will receive all the holidays you are entitled to. If you are required to work on a recognized holiday, you will be granted time off at a later date, or you will be given overtime pay.

New employees will receive holiday pay if they have been on the payroll for at least two days during the calendar week in which the holiday occurred or the workday before and the workday after the holiday. No holiday pay will be allowed if a holiday occurred within or immediately after a period of disciplinary suspension or unauthorized absence.