Holiday Schedule for State Employees

2026 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.

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.

**Holiday falls on a Saturday

• Full time employees who are entitled to observe holidays will be credited with 1 day of holiday compensatory time. Part-time employees who are eligible to earn accruals, will be credited with holiday compensatory time equivalent to the number of hours in the employees regular Friday shift. Holiday compensatory time will be indicated on the timesheet and will expire 1 year from the date earned.
• Please note that this Holiday Comp. Time is earned ON THE SATURDAY and cannot be used prior. Time off requests prior to the holiday must be submitted using the employees' other banked accruals.