Sec. 17.04.11.08. Employee Holidays

A. Employee holidays are specified in State Personnel and Pensions Article, §9-201, Annotated Code of Maryland. The appointing authority is a unit that provides a service continuously on a 7-day-a-week basis, may adopt alternate holiday scheduling that maintains the number of holidays allowed by State Personnel and Pensions Article, §9-201, Annotated Code of Maryland.

B. Part-Time Employees. Only part-time employees as the term is defined in State Personnel and Pensions Article, §7-701, Annotated Code of Maryland, are entitled to prorated holiday leave based on the employee's percentage of employment. Employees who work less than 50 percent of a regular pay period are not entitled to holiday leave.

C. Holiday Leave.

(1) An employee who, because of the nature of the employee's duties, is required to work on any part of an employee holiday, shall receive compensatory time for that work.

(2) An employee who is included in the executive pay plan at a pay grade of ES 6 or above may receive compensatory time for work on an employee holiday only if the employee works 5 or more hours on the holiday. The employee shall receive 1 day of compensatory time for each employee holiday on which the employee works 5 hours or more.

(3) An exempt employee shall use any compensatory time accrued under §C(1) and (2) of this regulation within 1 year after having accrued that time, or the time is forfeited.

(4) An employee who is on approved work-related accident leave during a period when an employee holiday occurs shall be paid the same rate as work-related accident leave when the holiday occurs.

(5) If an employee holiday, as provided in State Personnel and Pensions Article, §9-201, Annotated Code of Maryland, falls during the employee's absence on paid sick leave, the employee shall be credited with the employee holiday.

(6) As of July 1, 1998, nonuniformed employees of the Department of State Police who work on Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year's Day shall receive premium pay of time and one-half for each hour worked on these holidays in addition to compensatory time.

D. Compressed Workweek. An employee who works a compressed workweek schedule shall receive holiday leave for an employee holiday in accordance with the compressed workweek policy of the unit which employs the employee. Each unit shall file with the Office of Personnel Services and Benefits, Department of Budget and Management, its policy for crediting holiday leave to employees on a compressed workweek schedule.