FY08 Holiday Schedule and Energy Conservation Days

President Trauth has approved the following holiday schedule and energy conservation days for FY 08 at Texas State University-San Marcos.

The following have been designated as essential offices to remain open with skeleton crews for the seven (7) energy conservation days during Christmas and Spring Break.  Other offices may be requested by their vice president to remain open as well.  Regular staff who actually work on an official holiday will be allowed compensatory time off during the twelve month period following the holiday.

* Emergency and On-call personnel

The following have been designated as optional holidays by the Texas Legislature and may be observed in lieu of any official holiday appearing on the above schedule.  Regular employees wishing to observe an optional holiday must either work (with supervisor approval) or use accrued vacation or compensatory time on the official holiday the optional holiday is exchanged for.

Since compensatory time may not be advanced to employees, staff members will need to acquire the necessary comp time for the energy conservation days prior to those days.  Supervisors must provide ample opportunity for those employees observing energy conservation days to earn the comp time in advance.  If comp time is not available, an employee must use available vacation or take leave without pay.

Questions concerning the holiday and energy conservation days scheduled, as well as timekeeping procedures for these days, should be addressed to the Benefits Section of Human Resources at 245-2557 or email hr@txstate.edu.  Questions about who must work on the energy conservation days should be addressed to your supervisor or your vice president.

NOTE:   Employees who do not have vacation or comp time available for the Energy Conservation days in December will not receive pay for the holidays in December unless they work part of the day on December 20.