Leave-accruing Academic Personnel, USPS, and TEAMS employees are eligible for eleven paid holidays each year. Full-time employees earn eight hours of holiday pay as long as they are in pay status for a reasonable portion of their last regularly scheduled workday, as determined by their department, before the holiday. Part-time employees receive holiday time in proportion to their FTE.
Personnel receiving workers’ compensation salary indemnification payments are not entitled to holiday pay or special compensatory leave in conjunction with a holiday.
Vacation-accruing Academic Personnel and TEAMS employees have four personal leave days per year (32 hours assuming full-time status) to be used during the December holiday closing period. Certain units on campus may have to remain open, determined on a unit-by-unit basis by a department’s vice president or designee.
Non-essential TEAMS employees and Academic Personnel must use the personal leave days in full-day increments during the December holiday closing period. Non-essential USPS employees may be required to use vacation leave or leave without pay. Essential TEAMS and Academic Personnel employees can use their personal leave days in any increment from December 1 to the end of the fiscal year. The total hours for personal leave days in a workweek should not exceed the employee’s FTE.
Departments with OPS staff may adjust work schedules to allow OPS staff to make up work time as needed. OPS employees should report work hours to the state of Florida/People First biweekly, and time off during the holiday break may affect eligibility for health benefits.
USPS employees are not eligible for December Personal leave and may enter advanced vacation leave for the December holiday closing period on the first day of the first pay period in December. They must be in pay status for a “reasonable portion” of their last scheduled workday, as determined by their department, prior to the holiday to be eligible for holiday pay. USPS employees are not eligible for the four December personal leave days but may use vacation, accrued compensatory leave, or leave without pay during the holiday closing period.
USPS employees who wish to be advanced vacation leave should report all vacation leave usage in a timely manner through the Elapsed Timesheet in the myUFL system. Negative vacation leave balances are allowed starting on the first day of the first pay period in December, and usage is prohibited after the first day of the pay period in January, until the balance is positive again.
In addition to paid holidays, permanent USPS employees receive one paid “personal holiday” per fiscal year. Part-time USPS employees receive this holiday in proportion to their FTE. The personal holiday must be taken as a full day, not in hourly increments, and must be used by the end of each fiscal year.