UTSA Employee Holidays

Fiscal Year 2008 - 2009
Holiday Schedule

Date	Holiday	Day
September 1, 2008	Labor Day	Monday
November 27, 2008	Thanksgiving Day	Thursday
November 28, 2008	Day after Thanksgiving	Friday
December 22, 2008	Christmas Holiday (skeleton crew)*	Monday
December 23, 2008	Christmas Holiday (skeleton crew)*	Tuesday
December 24, 2008	Christmas Eve Day	Wednesday
December 25, 2008	Christmas Day	Thursday
December 26, 2008	Day after Christmas	Friday
January 1, 2009	New Year’s Day	Thursday
January 2, 2009	Day after New Year’s Day (skeleton crew)*	Friday
January 19, 2009	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day	Monday
May 25, 2009	Memorial Day	Monday
Floating Holiday**		24 hours

Texas Legislators designated 15 holidays for fiscal year 2008-2009. The total number of holidays awarded to state employees fluctuates annually because when typical holidays fall on Saturday or Sunday, they are not observed. Institutions of higher education may rearrange state holidays and establish their own holidays in order to provide more effective work schedules that are consistent with the academic calendar.

**Floating holiday: Floating holiday(s) are awarded when all Federal and UTSA traditional holidays have been allocated AND a remainder exists between the total number of holidays allocated and the total number of holidays designated by the Texas Legislature.
For Fiscal Year 2008-2009, all full-time benefits eligible employees (including probationary employees) are entitled to 24 hours of floating holiday time.These 24 hours may be scheduled at any time during the fiscal year with prior approval of the employee's immediate supervisor. Regular benefits-eligible employees appointed for less than 40 hours will receive holiday hours proportionate to the number of hours appointed to work.

*Skeleton work crew days : In accordance with the provisions of the Texas Government Code § 662.004 , a state agency must have enough employees on duty to conduct business during any holidays that UTSA selects that are not designated as "all (state) agencies closed."
An employee who serves as a member of a skeleton crew will be granted state compensatory time in lieu of the holiday in accordance to Chapter 4.27, section D. of the Handbook of Operating Procedures “State Compensatory Time”. State compensatory time off must be scheduled within twelve (12) months following the workweek in which it was earned with the prior approval of the employee's supervisor.
State compensatory time may also be used to observe an additional religious holiday(s), or state or national holiday that is not officially observed by UTSA. The Texas Legislature has specified Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Cesar Chavez Day or Good Friday as optional holidays. Employees are entitled to observe these holidays provided that they work a skeleton crew holiday, or use accrued and available leave.

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