New Legal Holiday Timesheet Process for University Staff

Due to a change with the recent HRS system upgrade in February, the system will now automatically enter and approve an absence request for 8 hours of legal holiday on the observed legal holiday for University Staff Ongoing employees who are in a 100% position.

  • If you are a University Staff Ongoing 100% FTE employee:
    • If you don’t work on the observed legal holiday and want to use 8 hours of legal holiday for that day, there is nothing you need to do.
    • If you don’t want to use 8 hours of legal holiday for that day, please contact payrollandbenefits@uwgb.edu (ex. you work a longer day later that week, so only want to use 6 hours of legal holiday)
  • Any University Staff Ongoing employees who are less than 100% FTE (part-time), will not have legal holidays automatically entered, so you will need to enter absence requests manually.  Emails with instructions were sent out to impacted employees.
  • Public Safety and Power Plant employees will not have legal holidays automatically entered.
  • This year there are two floating legal holidays (Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve), so University Staff Ongoing employees can enter legal holiday absence requests anytime in 2017 to use up these hours.  These floating legal holiday hours will not be automatically loaded.
  • Please note that legal holiday hours expire at the end of the calendar year (12/31/17) for University Staff Ongoing employees, and the legal holiday balance combines both observed and floating legal holiday hours.
  • There are nine legal holidays per year, and here is a list of the legal holidays: http://www.uwgb.edu/human-resources/payroll/legal-holidays/

Please contact Payroll at payrollandbenefits@uwgb.edu or (920) 465-2390 with any questions.