Employee Handbook – Section 308 Holidays

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308 Holidays

308.1 Definition

Holiday Leave provides employees with authorized paid absences from work for the purpose of observing designated holidays. Boston University observes the following thirteen (13) holidays:

 

1.	New Year’s Day
2.	Martin Luther King Jr. Day
3.	President’s Day
4.	Patriots’ Day
5.	Memorial Day
6.	Juneteenth
7.	Independence Day
8.	Labor Day
9.	Indigenous Peoples’ Day
10.	Veterans Day
11.	Thanksgiving Day
12.	Friday after Thanksgiving
13.	Christmas Day

 

The specific dates on which the holidays will be observed are published each year in the University’s official Schedule of Holidays and Intersession Days.

308.2 Eligibility

All regular, full-time employees and regular, part-time employees are eligible upon hire for Holiday Leave.

308.3 Compensation and Benefits

When a holiday observance falls on an employee’s regularly scheduled workday and the employee does not work on that day, eligible employees will be paid for the holiday at the employee’s regular rate of pay. Employees will not be paid when a holiday observance falls on the employee’s scheduled day off and they do not work on that day.

Employees must work both the last scheduled workday preceding a holiday observance and the first scheduled workday following the holiday observance to be eligible for Holiday Leave unless they are on an authorized paid absence for those days.

Employees who are on an authorized paid absence (e.g., Sick Leave and Vacation Leave) for the last scheduled workday preceding a holiday observance and first scheduled workday following the holiday observance will be eligible for Holiday Leave on the day of the observance.

Employees who are on an unpaid absence from the University are not eligible for Holiday Leave.

Non-exempt employees who are required to work on a regularly scheduled University holiday shall be paid at the employee’s regular straight-time pay for that day. In addition, they shall receive time-and-one-half (1-1/2) pay for all hours actually worked on that holiday or, alternatively, they may elect compensatory time off, calculated at regular straight-time rates, in the amount of one-and-one-half (1-1/2) hours off for each hour actually worked.

Exempt employees who are required to work on the day of an observed holiday will be eligible for Compensatory Time Off.

Employees maintain their regular benefits while absent from work on approved Holiday Leave.

308.4 Related Policies

301   Vacation Leave
302   Sick Leave
309   Compensatory Time Off
316   Religious Holidays (unpaid)

 

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THIS POLICY STATEMENT IS PART OF THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK, AND SHOULD BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALL OF THE POLICIES THAT COMPRISE THE HANDBOOK. THE PROVISIONS OF THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT AND DO NOT ALTER THE AT-WILL STATUS OF AN EMPLOYEE.

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