December 26 Holiday

Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 15:02:58 -0500
To: "USGS Employees"<distribution>
From: "Jeanne M. Placanica" <mplacani>
Subject: December 26 Holiday

The President has issued an Executive Order excusing all Federal employees
from duty on Friday, December 26, 1997.  Because this day off will be
considered a holiday for pay and leave purposes, no employee will be
charged leave for that day.  If you have scheduled "use or lose" annual
leave for December 26, you must reschedule and use the leave before the end
of the leave year (January 3, 1998) or it will be forfeited with no
opportunity for restoration.

If you are working under an alternative work schedule (AWS) or a compressed
work schedule and your AWS/compressed day off falls on December 26, your
day off will be Wednesday, December 24.  With supervisory approval,
employees on AWS may schedule the AWS day off on another day during the
same pay period.  Employees working under a compressed work schedule may
not elect to move the day off from Wednesday.

Holidays are recorded as 8 hours of pay for employees who are working a
maxiflex schedule (a flexible schedule under which an employee may work
more than 8 hours a day).  Because there will be three holidays occurring
in the same pay period (December 25 and 26 and January 1), there will be
three 8 hour days during that pay period.   Therefore, employees working a
maxiflex schedule may need to adjust the number of hours worked or the
amount of leave, compensatory time or credit hours used on other days in
order to account for a total of 80 hours by the end of the pay period.

Specific instructions concerning time and attendance recording will be
issued to timekeepers.

If you have any questions, please contact your servicing personnel office.