CU Anschutz Medical Campus Holiday Schedules

This means that all work and classes (on-site or remote) on the CU Anschutz Medical campus is suspended for a State, Chancellor or Governor designated holiday. However, essential and critical employees, and those with clinical responsibilities and other campus critical functions may be required to be on campus.

You are considered essential or critical if you work in any University of Colorado Hospital or Children’s Hospital Colorado space, and/or are responsible for patient care and clinical operations in another site of practice that are unable to close or if you have received an essential or critical personnel card or it has been designated in your offer letter (e.g., facilities, police, etc.). You may choose alternate days with your manager’s approval.

If you are unsure if your position is considered essential or critical, you may ask your manager or department-level HR Business Partner.

Essential or critical employees will work with their managers to schedule equivalent alternate holiday leave if they are scheduled to work on a designated holiday. Employees will have until June 30th of each fiscal year to use their alternate holiday leave.

All leave-eligible regular staff and faculty receive paid holiday time, pro-rated for part time.

No. Working retirees are considered temporary employees and are not eligible for paid leave time.

Temporary employees are not eligible for paid leave or benefits and do not report to work when offices are closed.

Employees already on approved vacation, sick or other types of paid leave may substitute holiday leave (or administrative leave, as appropriate) on those days.

If you use MyLeave, state holidays are generally pre-populated with the “Holiday (HOL)” earnings code and do not require any additional entry on the employee’s behalf.

For Chancellor or Governor designated holidays, employees should record the time as “Administrative Leave” with a note “Holiday Closure” in the description field.

For employees using a different timekeeping system, please check with your department-level HR Business Partner for department-specific timekeeping procedures.

If you work in a Consolidated Unit serving both campuses, you should follow the guidance from the campus consistent with your currently designated holiday schedule in MyLeave (or other timekeeping system).

Check with your department-level HR Business Partner.

No. If a new leave-eligible employee is hired prior to a holiday, they are eligible to receive the paid holiday.

Employees who terminate before the designated holiday (winter break) are not eligible for the holiday. Employees who terminate after the designated holiday will receive the holiday (prorated for part-time employees).

Employees working flextime/compressed schedules receive eight (8) hours of paid holiday leave per holiday and must use vacation for the hours normally worked over eight (8) hours, or work the extra time another day of the same week, or revert to a schedule of eight (8) hours a day for the five days of that week, or be docked for the unpaid hours of time.

No. Employees who have unpaid leave for the entire month do not receive holiday leave.

Yes. Employees who work any day in the month are eligible for holiday leave for that month, prorated for part-time employees and for paid days within the month.

No. These employees do not receive holiday leave because they are paid through their short-term disability benefits. They are considered on unpaid leave of absence.

Appointing authorities (CU Anschutz Chancellor) may designate alternative holiday schedules for the fiscal year. Classified employees will receive the equivalent of the full complement of eleven (11) State holidays for the fiscal year. Classified employees who are required to work on any of the State observed holidays shall be granted an alternate day off in the same fiscal year.

Unless an employee requests an alternate holiday to observe, classified non-exempt employees shall be paid premium pay equal to 1.5x of their regular base rate of pay or corresponding compensatory time for all hours worked on a State observed (or campus designated alternate holiday).