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The university has announced its schedule of holidays for faculty and staff for calendar year 2001. The university previously had established its schedule of paid holidays based on the fiscal year, but a clarification of regents’ policy indicates holidays are determined by calendar year.
The board of regents authorizes observance of 12 paid holidays per year. The university traditionally observes single-day holidays at Independence Day, Labor Day and Martin Luther King Day; a two-day holiday at Thanksgiving; and the remaining seven for the Christmas-New Year’s break. Although the university occasionally has been able to observe Memorial Day as an official holiday, that is possible only when Christmas and New Year’s days fall on or adjacent to a weekend.
“Our choice for 2001 was between working on Memorial Day or on Monday, Dec. 31,” says university spokesman Tom Jackson. “In previous years, the staff has clearly indicated its preference that the Christmas-New Year’s continuous break be maintained even if it means foregoing Memorial Day as a holiday.”
The Maymester class calendar as adopted by University Council gives students Memorial Day as a holiday from class, but it will not be a faculty-staff paid holiday in 2001 in order to maintain the continuous year-end holiday break. The university will officially close operations for the 2001 Christmas-New Year’s holiday season at the close of business on Friday, Dec. 21, 2001, and will resume normal scheduled operations on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2002.
“Holiday calendars are established for each year depending on how the calendar falls relative to the 12 available paid holidays,” Jackson says.
The full holiday schedule for calendar year 2001 is:
- New Year’s Day • Monday, Jan. 1, 2001
- Martin Luther King Day • Monday, Jan. 15, 2001
- Independence Day • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
- Labor Day • Monday, Sept. 3, 2001
- Thanksgiving • Thursday and Friday, Nov. 22-23, 2001
- Christmas-New Year’s • Monday-Monday, Dec. 24-31, 2001
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