All full-time non-faculty employees are entitled to the following paid college holidays:

• Labor Day
• One October Study Day (a college designated Monday or Tuesday during the month of October)
• Wednesday before Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving day
• Friday following Thanksgiving
• Christmas Day
• New Year's Day
• Memorial Day
• Independence Day
• Two holy days (Department Heads must be notified in advance)
• In addition Martin Luther King Day will be considered a paid college holiday in the years in which classes are not held on the holiday.

If a paid holiday falls within an employee's approved vacation period, an additional day off with pay will be allowed.

In some years, the College schedule requires partial or full staff coverage on a College-designated holiday (such as Labor Day or October Study Day). Employees should be aware that they might be expected to work on such a holiday as part of their responsibility to the needs of the College and its students. Notification of required coverage during such a holiday will be made in writing (in advance of the holiday) by your Department Head and the Director of Human Resources. If work on a holiday causes the hours worked to include straight or premium overtime, then overtime policies will apply.

Any full-time non-exempt office employee who must work on a College-designated holiday will receive equivalent compensatory time off for the hours worked as well as his or her normal pay. Except in the circumstances mentioned above, employees may not choose to work on these days in order to hold them over for use at other times of the year.

Regular part-time employees are paid only for those holidays that fall on their regularly scheduled workdays. A regular part-time non-exempt office employee who must work on a College-designated holiday that falls on his or her regularly scheduled work day will receive equivalent compensatory time off for the hours worked as well as his or her normal pay.

Temporary and casual employees are paid only for actual hours worked and, therefore, receive no paid holidays.

Observance of two religious holy days will also be considered paid holidays.

2010-11 College Holidays for Administrative Staff

• Independence Day Break: Friday, July 2 and Monday, July 5, 2010
• Labor Day Holiday: Friday, September 3, 2010
• October Study Days: Monday, October 18, and Tuesday, October 19, 2010.  Administrative staff may take one of these two days off.  It will be up to each department head or supervisor to determine their department members’ schedules to ensure that all offices have adequate coverage on both days.
• Thanksgiving Break:  Wednesday, November 24, through Sunday, November 28, 2010
• Winter Break: Thursday, December 23, 2010 through Sunday, January 2, 2011
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Monday, January 17, 2011
• Spring Break: Weeks of March 12 through March 19 and March 20 through March 27, 2011.  In accordance with their work schedules, eligible members of the staff may take one of these weeks off, with the department schedule to be determined by the department head or supervisor so that all offices have adequate coverage during those weeks.
• Memorial Day: Monday, May 30, 2011