Holiday Schedule for State Employees

Holiday Schedule for State Employees

2023 Holiday List

Paid Holidays: An employee who is eligible to observe holidays and is required to work on a holiday shall be granted a compensatory day off, mutually convenient to the employee and the supervisor. It must be taken within one year of the date it is earned.

New Year's Day

Monday

January 2, 2023

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Monday

January 16, 2023

Lincoln's Birthday (observed)

Monday

February 13, 2023

Washington's Birthday (President's Day)

Monday

February 20, 2023

Memorial Day

Monday

May 29, 2023

Juneteenth 

Monday

June 19, 2023

Independence Day 

Tuesday

July 4, 2023

Labor Day

Monday

September 4, 2023

Columbus Day

Monday

October 9, 2023

Election Day 

Tuesday

November 7, 2023

Veteran’s Day  

Saturday

November 11, 2023

Thanksgiving Day

Thursday

November 23, 2023

Christmas Day 

 

Monday

December 25, 2023

 

Part-Time Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)

  • Part-time CSEA employees who are eligible to observe holidays are entitled to observe only those holidays that fall on days when they are regularly scheduled to work, or required to work.

Floating Holidays - CSEA

  • Full-time employees who are eligible to observe holidays and work on Election Day and/or Lincoln's Birthday will be credited with a floating holiday.
  • Full-time employees, for whom Election Day and/or Lincoln's Birthday are pass days, will be credited with a floating holiday.
  • Eligible part-time employees will be credited with a floating holiday if they are regularly scheduled to work, or are directed to work on Election Day and/or Lincoln's Birthday.

UUP Professionals and Management/Confidential Employees

  • Lincoln’s Birthday is a floating holiday.
  • Election Day is a floating holiday designated to be observed the day after Thanksgiving.

NYSCOPBA Employees

  • Security Services and Security Supervisors observe all holidays as listed (no floating holidays).

Supervisors are encouraged to liberally approve time off for staff between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.