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307 Holidays 

 

307.1 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. 

307.2 Eligibility 

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

307.3 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 (e.g., Sick Leave and Vacation Leave) for those days or otherwise required by law. 

Employees who are on an unpaid absence from the University are not eligible for Holiday Leave, unless otherwise required by law. 

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 may be granted approved time off from work to observe their religious holidays which do not coincide with the holidays that are officially observed by Boston University. Employees who need a reasonable accommodation related to religious holidays should contact Human Resources.  In addition, employees should notify their immediate supervisor at least one (1) week in advance of the desired time off.  

Paid holidays off are not counted as hours worked for purposes of calculating overtime.  

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