- A. Holidays are to be taken on the prescribed day unless the agency requires the employee to work. The agency shall give employees who must work on holidays prior notice if possible.
- B. Employees shall observe the holiday on the designated day or receive holiday compensatory time.
- C. When a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is deemed a public holiday for all purposes. When a holiday falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday is deemed a public holiday for all purposes. If either the following Monday or the preceding Friday is a holiday, then the State Human Resources Director will designate the day upon which the holiday will be observed by state employees. To ensure that no more than the legal holidays specified in Section 53-5-10 of the South Carolina Code of Laws are observed in a calendar year, a New Year’s Day that falls on a Saturday must be observed on the following Monday.
- D. Employees in FTE positions who do not work a normal Monday through Friday workweek shall receive no more nor any fewer number of holidays than those employees who work the normal Monday through Friday workweek.
- E. The length of an employee’s holiday is computed based on the number of hours in the employee’s average workday. To determine the number of hours in a holiday, divide the total number of hours an employee is regularly scheduled to work during a week by five (regardless of the number of days the employee actually reports to work).
- F. When a holiday falls during a period of leave with pay, that day will be counted as a holiday, not as a day of leave.
- G. Employees who are on leave without pay the day before a holiday shall not be paid or receive holiday compensatory time for holidays falling during this period of leave without pay.
- H. The holiday schedules of public colleges and universities, including technical colleges, shall not be in violation of this Section so long as the number of holidays provided in this Section are not exceeded.
HISTORY: Added by State Register Volume 26, Issue No. 1, eff January 25, 2002. Amended by State Register Volume 34, Issue No. 5, eff May 28, 2010; State Register Volume 40, Issue No. 10, eff October 28, 2016; SCSR 48-9, eff September 27, 2024.