ARTICLE 31 – HOLIDAYS

The language in this Appendix continues unchanged from the previous Agreement except for minor housekeeping changes.

PLEASE NOTE:
Language that is in bold typeface and underlined was added with this Agreement.
Language that is struckthrough was removed with this Agreement.
Language in Italics are annotations added by the Office of Collective Bargaining.

 

31.01 - List of Days

Full-time employees of the bargaining unit shall have the following holidays:

  1. New Year's Day  - (first day in January)
  2. Martin Luther King's Birthday - (third Monday in January)
  3. President's Day - (third Monday in February)
  4. Memorial Day - (last Monday in May)
  5. Independence Day - (fourth of July)
  6. Labor Day - (first Monday in September)
  7. *Columbus Day - (second Monday in October)
  8. Veteran's Day - (eleventh day of November)
  9. Thanksgiving Day - (fourth Thursday in November)
  10. *Day after Thanksgiving Day - (fourth Friday in November)
  11. Christmas Day - (twenty-fifth day of December)
  12. Any day declared by the Governor of the State of Ohio or the President of the United States.

*Columbus Day shall be observed by all bargaining unit employees except those in the institutions of the Departments of Mental Health, Rehabilitation and Corrections, and Youth Services, , who shall observe the day after Thanksgiving Day in lieu of Columbus Day.

A holiday falling on a Sunday will be observed on the following Monday, while a holiday falling on a Saturday will be observed on the preceding Friday.  In work facilities which operate on Saturday and/or Sunday, the holiday will be observed on the day on which it falls.  The Schools for the Deaf and Blind shall observe Veterans' Day on either a Friday or a Monday when the actual day of the holiday falls on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. The day Veterans' Day will be observed shall be set forth in the school calendar.

Rationale:

In 1994 the Schools for the Deaf and Blind requested the new language for the convenience of parents and students who on mid-week holidays must be transported from school to home two times within one week.

Note:  1997 changes limited to deletion of MRDD and OVCH.

Attention:

Agency Labor Relations, Payroll and Personnel Officers, Supervisors, DAS Payroll.

Instructions:

School calendars will reflect that Veteran's Day will always be observed on either a Friday or a Monday when the actual holiday falls on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.  The Union should be notified as far in advance of the day as possible.

 

31.02 - Holiday Pay

Full-time employees are automatically entitled to eight (8) hours of holiday pay (base rate of pay) regardless of whether they work on the holiday.  Employees who are scheduled to work more than eight (8) hours in a day, will receive the holiday pay for the hours that they are normally scheduled to work.  For example, employees who work a ten (10) hour day will receive ten (10) hours of holiday pay for the holiday.  Employees on such alternative schedules whose day off falls on the recognized holiday shall have their next scheduled work day designated as the holiday for purposes of this Article.  Compensation for working on a holiday is in addition to the automatic  holiday pay and shall be computed at the rates prescribed in Section 31.03.

  1. An employee on vacation or scheduled sick leave during a holiday will not be charged vacation or sick leave for the holiday.  Employees who are scheduled to work and call off sick the day of a holiday forfeit their right to holiday pay for that day.
  2. An employee on leave of absence without pay (no-pay status) shall not receive payment for a holiday.  A leave of absence without pay shall neither start nor end on a holiday.
  3. An employee in no-pay status shall not receive holiday compensation.
  4. Full-time employees with work schedules other than Monday through Friday are entitled to pay for any holiday observed on day off.

Explanation:

The 1997 changes clarifies that employees scheduled to work more than eight (8) hours a day receive holiday pay for the number of hours scheduled.  New language also provides that employees on such alternate work schedules, whose days off fall on the actual holiday, shall have their next scheduled workday designated as the holiday.

Attention:

Agency Labor Relations, Human Resources and Payroll Officers.

Instructions:

Pay employees on alternative work schedules appropriate payment.

 

31.03 - Computation of Holiday Pay or Compensatory Time

An employee who is required to work a holiday or is called in may choose to receive overtime pay equivalent to one and one-half (1 1/2) times the hours worked times the base rate of pay or receive compensatory time equivalent to one and one-half (1 1/2) times the hours worked.

Holiday compensatory time will be used by the end of the year or by June 30th of the following year if the work occurred in the second half of the year.

Upon separation from state service for any reason including retirement, employees will receive compensation for all holiday compensatory time earned but not used pursuant to this Section at the rate of pay in effect at the date of separation.

31.04 - Part-Time Employees

Part-time employees will be paid holiday pay for any holiday on which they are ordinarily scheduled.  They shall be paid for the number of hours for which they would have ordinarily been scheduled regardless of whether they work on the holiday.  If part-time employees are required to work on the holiday, or are called in, they shall be paid in accordance with Section 31.03.