December, January holidays
This year, Dec. 25 will fall on a Saturday, as will Jan. 1, 2011. The official University holidays, therefore, will be Dec. 23, 24 and 25 (Thursday, Friday and Saturday); Dec. 27, 28 and 29 (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday); and Saturday, Jan. 1. University policies provide, however, that if a holiday falls on an employee’s regularly scheduled day off, the employee receives another day off with pay to be used at another time. Thus, employees who normally do not work Saturdays will receive two compensatory days off for the Saturday holidays occurring on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.
Thursday, Dec. 30, and Friday, Dec. 31, are not University holidays and offices ordinarily would be open those days. However, in order to provide a generally more desirable and efficient application of time off, University offices and facilities except for essential services will be closed for these two days as well. Therefore, the University will be closed from the end of normal operations on Wednesday, Dec. 22, and will reopen on Monday, Jan. 3.
The two compensatory days earned for the Saturday holidays (December 25 and January 1) will be used to account for the work absences on Dec. 30 and 31. Those two days, however, will not be official University holidays. Employees in essential services who qualify for compensatory days but who must work Dec. 30 and 31 still will have their compensatory days off for use at a later time.
Those who normally do not work on Thursdays or Fridays but who must work either or both of those days will be compensated in accordance with applicable University policy.
Information about paycheck distribution will be announced at a later date. This schedule does not apply to the College of Medicine at Hershey Medical Center.
Questions regarding this holiday schedule should be directed to the appropriate college or department human resources representative, or the business office at facilities away from the University Park campus.