Administrative Holidays are declared at the discretion of the Chancellor. No specific days are specified in the contracts and their occurence varies from year to year. Most often they occur during the Holiday period at the end of the calendar year. Not all Administrative Holidays will be for an entire day, but rather will be for only part of a day. Administrative Holidays are different from Administrative Leave (e.g. snow days) which have separate Time Reporting Codes (TRCs) and different guidelines.
Administrative Holidays are compensated at straight pay. If employees are required to work during the Administrative Holiday period, they will receive both straight pay for the time worked as well as the Holiday pay. Additional pay is not granted to employees who were not scheduled for the Administrative Holiday period.
Separate instructions are available for reporting time on Regular Holidays and Family Holidays.
Note: The example below uses the example from 2008 of an Administrative Holiday being declared from 12:00 AM to 12:00 Midnight on Friday, December 26 and also accounts for the Christmas Holiday being observed on Thursday, December 25th.
In the example below, the employee normally has an 8:00 to 4:30 schedule.
Employees normally not scheduled to work during the period of an Administrative Holiday do not recieve any additional pay and should not report time for that period.
When working the holiday, time needs to be properly entered so that time is paid both for the holiday as well as the time worked on the holiday. HOLAD is used in addition to the HOL code to indicate time worked. In the example below, an employee normally works a 40 hour schedule Monday through Friday. She works from 8 to 4:30, and the Holiday starts at 12:00 AM on Friday, so she enters 8 hours of REG, 8 hours of HOL, and 8 hours of HOLAD for Friday.
Other employees may be asked (or request) to earn compensatory time in lieu of the pay for the holiday. By using the correct comp code, time will be saved. Note that the comp time is recorded at the same amount as the time worked.
The code (CMCSV) used above is for ACSUM employees. Non-represented employees should use CMNSV, those in Service and Maintenance should use CMMSV and those in the Police unit should use CMPSV.
When an employee works over their normal schedule for an administrative holiday, any hours worked in excess of their normal schedule should be compensated at the times two (x2) rate. (Which is equal to the rate paid of compounding HOL and HOLAD.)
Consider an employee staying an extra two hours over their normal schedule on the day of the holiday, they would enter an additional two hours as ADMX2 to receive pay for those hours.
On the other hand, if the employee was receiving comp time for their time worked, they would use the appropriate comp code for x2 comp time earned, and double the number of hours claimed. Here the two extra hours worked is claimed as four hours of comp time.
Note: This x2 codes should only be used for time worked during the holiday, time worked outside of the normal time periods should be recorded as overtime. So if a holiday started at noon, and the employee came in early that morning the normal overtime or callback rules would apply.
Employees who work shifts should also enter the shift code for holidays. Whether worked or not, the employee is entitled to the shift differential. In the example below the employee works 8 hours of shift each day, including the holiday and enters shift accordingly.
(The above example assumes a shift period in which all scheduled hours fall during the hours of the Administrative Holiday.)
Please feel free to contact the Human Resources Office either by phone or sending an email to umf.hr@maine.edu if you have questions about entering time whether for yourself or by employees you supervise.
last revised on December 19, 2008