Section 22-B8403. HOLIDAYS

 

8403.1Policy: The PBC shall provide the following eleven (11) total paid holidays off during the calendar year:

 

(a)New Year’s Day;

 

(b)Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday;

 

(c)President’s Day;

 

(d)Memorial Day;

 

(e)Independence Day;

 

(f)Labor Day;

 

(g)Columbus Day;

 

(h)Veteran’s Day;

 

(i)Thanksgiving Day;

 

(j)Christmas Day; and

 

(k)Presidential Inaugural Day.

 

8403.2Part-time employees shall be entitled to the above holidays, with pay, on a prorated basis.

 

8403.3Holiday scheduling and pay:

 

(a)Recognizing that PBC operates every day of the year and that it is not possible for all employees to be off on the same day, the PBC shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to require any employee to work on any of the holidays herein specified; however, department heads shall distribute time off to observe holidays in an equitable manner;

 

(b)The day on which the holiday is legally celebrated shall be the day an which premium pay is paid to those employees who work on that day;

 

(c)If an employee is absent the scheduled work day before or the scheduled day after a paid holiday or day off for having worked a previous holiday, PBC shall require proof of illness. The employer may deny pay for such holiday if such proof is requested and not provided or satisfactory to the PBC;

 

(d)In the event the employee is required to work on any of the legal holidays named in § 403.1, the employee shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) regular pay for all hours worked on the holiday, and shall receive an additional day off with regular pay within thirty (30) days of the holiday or an extra day’ regular pay in lieu thereof, as determined by the PBC. Every effort shall be made to collaborate with employees to develop schedules that balance both organizational and individual needs;

 

(e)Employees who are exempt from the overtime pay requirements or who are required to work on a legal holiday, shall receive regular pay plus an additional day off with pay;

 

(f)If any employee is scheduled to work on a paid holiday and fails to work his/her shift, the employee shall forfeit holiday pay;

 

(g)If a legal holiday falls on an employee’s regularly scheduled day off, the employee shall receive a day off with regular pay within thirty (30) days of the holiday or at the option of the PBC, an additional day’s regular pay in lieu thereof; and

 

(h)If a legal holiday falls during an employee’s paid time off, the employee shall have that day considered a holiday rather than a paid time off day.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 45 DCR 7353, 7375 (October 9, 1998).