There are NINE national holidays
and EIGHT state holidays which state employees are
allowed to take. The holidays are listed below:
NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
The first day of January New Year’s Day
The third Monday in January Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
The third Monday in February Presidents’ Day
The last Monday in May Memorial Day
The fourth day in July Fourth of July
The first Monday in September Labor Day
The 11th day of November Veteran’s Day
The fourth Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day
The 25th day of December Christmas Day
STATE HOLIDAYS
The 19th day of January Confederate Heroes Day
The second day of March Texas Independence Day
The 21st day of April San Jacinto Day
The 19th day of June Emancipation Day
The 27th day of August LBJ’s Birthday
The fourth Friday of November Thanksgiving Holiday
The 24th day of December Christmas Holiday
The 26th day of December Christmas Holiday
CHOOSING THE HOLIDAYS
Each component can choose which holidays to celebrate provided
they fall on a Monday through Friday. State employees are not entitled
to a holiday if it falls on a weekend, hence the variability in
the number of holidays from year to year.
National holidays are considered FULL holidays
(the “circled” days on the calendar) and do NOT
require a skeleton crew; state holidays require that enough employees
be on duty to conduct public business-- they become the “skeleton
crew” holidays (the “square” days). EXCEPTIONS
to this rule are the fourth Friday of November and December 24 and
December 26. Vernons, 662.004
In 1993, the Executive Council approved
the following CORE
holidays:
Labor Day (1 day)
Thanksgiving (2 days)
Christmas (2 days)
New Year’s Day (1 day)
Martin Luther King (1 day)
Memorial Day (1 day)
Independence Day (1 day)
The model used to develop the calendar is to count the total number
of holidays that fall on a Monday through Friday and subtract the
CORE holidays for UTHSC-H. The committee then determines
the remaining holidays, which vary up to six days. Be reminded,
national holidays are full holidays versus state or other holidays
which require a skeleton crew.
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