100% employee receives 8 hours per holiday with a total of 72 hours per year.
80% employee receives 6.5 hours per holiday (72 * .8 = 6.5 hours/holiday)
60% employee receives 4.75 hours per holiday (72 * .6 = 4.75 hours/holiday)
Warning! Only full time employees (FTE = 1) will have their legal holidays automatically loaded. Employees with less than 1.0 FTE typically have a non-standard work day equal to their FTE * 8 for each day. (ex. a 0.80 employee will generally not be working exactly 6.4 hours each day). Part-time employees’ earnings and usage need to be monitored so the usage is not under or over by the year end.
The UWSS Service Operations will identify all active full time bi-weekly employees (FTE = 1) who are eligible for legal holidays and automatically load the Absence Events. Legal holidays for bi-weekly employees will be loaded prior to the pay period opening. A reminder communication will be sent out for the first two holidays including all active employees who are to be automatically loaded to absence event to familiarize campuses with the new procedure.
Full Time Employees who report to work on an observed legal holiday for a full or partial day should have the pre-loaded absence event voided or adjusted using the procedure outlined in Managing Absences for a Prior Pay Period (Payroll Coordinator) in HRS. Employees should mark the hours on their time sheet as a holiday worked. (See Entering Time When an Employee Works on a Legal Holiday in HRS )
Example 1: If an employee works 4 hours on a legal holiday they would either need to add the 4.0 hours of legal holiday before the designated legal holiday loading period begins or a coordinator would need to change the 8.0 hours to 4.0 hours. The employee would also need to record 4.0 hours of Holiday Worked on their timesheet just as they have done in the past.
Full Time employees who do not wish to have any legal holiday hours charged on an observed legal holiday should have the absence voided. This will allow them to earn 8 hours for the legal holiday but not be charged any legal holiday hours on the observed holiday.
Example: If an employee puts in 40 hours of work in a week containing a legal holiday and they do not wish to use any legal holiday leave hours, the legal holiday earnings will be earned but there will be no usage for the period, effectively deferring 8 hours of legal holiday for the employee.
Example 1: 1.0 FTE Employee requests a half day of Legal Holiday on Independence Day as of 6/1, because they do not want to use 8.0 hours of legal holiday for Independence Day. The 4.0 hours of Legal Holiday are not changed to 8.
Example 2: 1.0 Employee requests a half day of Vacation on Labor Day as of 8/1. The vacation hours entered on Labor Day would be ignored by the legal holiday load, the system did not see a pre-existing Legal Holiday take, so it loads 8.0 hours. The employee will have 12.0 hours total on this day and intervention by a payroll coordinator will be required.