UW-Green Bay observes 9 legal holidays each year (click here for dates), in which university offices are closed. When a legal holiday falls on an employee’s regularly scheduled day off (ex. Saturday), a floating legal holiday may be granted.
In 2022, New Year’s Day (1/1/22), Christmas Eve (12/24/22), and New Year’s Eve (12/31/22) fall on a Saturday, so employees (in leave earning positions) are granted floating legal holiday hours.
Christmas Day (12/25/22) falls on a Sunday, so it will be observed on Monday, December 26th. New Year’s Day (1/1/23) also falls on a Sunday, and will be observed on Monday, January 2nd.
As a reminder, floating legal holiday hours may be used any time during the year they are earned.
University Staff employees must use the floating legal holiday hours during the calendar year they are earned, which means that the floating legal holiday hours must be used by December 31, 2022. If you aren’t sure how many floating legal holiday hours you have, full-time employees can take their available legal holiday balance minus the observed legal holidays (ex. 8 hours for Thanksgiving and 8 hours for Christmas Day) to get their floating legal holiday hours. To see your paid leave balances, click on the Absence Balances tab under your timesheet. In the example below, there are 8 legal holiday hours in the earned balance column (from January 1, 2022), and 40 hours in the available balance column. The 40 hours includes those 8 hours from 1/1/22, 8 hours for Thanksgiving, 8 hours for Christmas Eve, 8 hours for Christmas Day and 8 hours for New Year’s Eve. Of those 40 hours, 16 hours (Thanksgiving and Christmas Day) are observed days (8 hours each), and the remaining hours (24) are floating legal holidays.
Academic Staff and Limited employees must use floating legal holiday hours during the fiscal year they are earned, and will need to use the floating legal holiday hours for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve by June 30, 2023.
Use of floating legal holiday hours should be reported as “Legal Holiday” on either your timesheet (University Staff) or absence entry (Academic Staff/Limited). Please review the instructions for entering a floating legal holiday:
Please contact Human Resources at hr@uwgb.edu with any questions.