Holiday Schedule for State Employees

September 2019 through September 2020

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.

Holiday List

Labor Day	Monday	September 2, 2019
Columbus Day	Monday	October 14, 2019
Election Day *	Tuesday	November 5, 2019
Veteran’s Day * (observed)	Monday	November 11, 2019
Thanksgiving Day	Thursday	November 28, 2019
Christmas Day	Wednesday	December 25, 2019
New Year's Day	Wednesday	January 1, 2020
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day	Monday	January 20, 2020
Lincoln's Birthday *	Wednesday	February 12, 2020
Washington's Birthday (observed) *	Monday	February 17, 2020
Memorial Day	Monday	May 25, 2020
Independence Day	Saturday	July 4, 2020
Labor Day	Monday	September 7, 2020

* CLASSES WILL BE IN SESSION AND OFFICES WILL REMAIN OPEN on Election Day, Veteran’s Day, Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday.

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 designated to be observed the day after Thanksgiving.

NYSCOPBA Employees

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

 

Note: For FT employees who are entitled to observe holidays, and for whom Sunday, November 11 is a regular day off, you will be credited with a compensatory day off. This will automatically be posted to your electronic time record in mid-November.

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