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Attendance and Leave Manual

Transmittal Memorandum No. 43

Appendix B - 2018 Calendar of Legal Holidays and Days of Religious Significance - July 2017

TO: Manual Recipients
FROM: Scott DeFruscio, Director of Staffing Services
SUBJECT: Attendance and Leave Manual Appendix B

This memorandum transmits the material listed below for insertion in your copy of the Attendance and Leave Manual.

  Section Pages Date

(1) Introduction

Appendix B

1-2

July 2017

(2) 2018 Calendar of
Legal Holidays and
Days of Religious
Significance

Appendix B

 

3-6

 

July 2017

 

 

The following material should be retained until July 19, 2019, and then removed from your copy of the Manual and destroyed.

  Section Pages Date

(1) Introduction

Appendix B

1-2

August 2016

(2) 2017 Calendar of
Legal Holidays and
Days of Religious
Significance

Appendix B

 

3-6

 

August 2016

 

Introduction

The New York State General Construction Law establishes the days or dates on which legal holidays are observed in New York State. Under this law, holidays other than Flag Day which fall on a Sunday are observed on the following Monday. The Attendance Rules and negotiated agreements identify which of these legal holidays are observed as paid holidays by New York State as an employer. This calendar does not modify negotiated agreements or Attendance Rules items on the subject of holidays. (See Section 21.1, Holidays, in this Manual.)

Information concerning the days of religious significance was obtained from official religious sources. Since it is not possible to include in this calendar the days of religious significance of every faith, agencies with questions about other religious observances should call the Attendance and Leave Unit of this Department at (518) 457-2295.

The calendar is intended as a guide, since special and local conditions may cause variation from official practice. It is impossible here to note every observance, such as an individual saint’s day, which ordinarily would not require absence from work.

The following further explains days of religious significance and the calendar notations:

  1. An asterisk (*) indicates a day of required religious observance. The letters before an asterisk indicate the faiths for which the day is a day of required religious observance. The abbreviations used correspond to the following denominations or subdenominations:

    EO - Eastern Orthodox
    P - Protestant
    RC - Roman Catholic
    OJ - Orthodox Jew
    CJ - Conservative Jew
    RJ - Reform Jew
    M - Muslim

  2. All days of religious significance for the Jewish faith begin at sundown on the evening before the date given.
  3. The Orthodox Jewish faith requires its members to observe each Saturday as the Sabbath. Its members are not permitted to travel by car or common carrier after sundown on Friday evening.
  4. Reform Jews observe one day of required religious observance at the beginning and end of holy days rather than the two days Conservative and Orthodox Jews observe.
  5. The Roman Catholic Church requires its members to attend Mass every Sunday and on days of required religious observance. In some areas, this obligation may be fulfilled by attending Mass after 4 p.m. on the preceding day. In some communities, the Solemnity of the Mother of God (January 1), The Assumption (August 15), and All Saints Day (November 1) are not considered to be days of required religious observance if they fall on a Saturday or a Monday.
  6. The Eastern Orthodox Church requires its members to attend Divine Liturgy on Sundays and on days of required religious observance.
  7. Some Eastern Orthodox churches, including many Russian Orthodox parishes, follow the Julian rather than the Gregorian calendar. For this reason, they celebrate certain days of religious significance 13 days later than the dates listed by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
  8. Members of the Islamic faith observe Fridays as their major day of worship. The fast of Ramadan begins at sundown on the evening before the date given; there is no prohibition on working during Ramadan. The two days of required religious observance are Eid-ul-Fitr (Festival of Fastbreaking) and Eid-ul-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice). Members of the Islamic faith are prohibited from working on those two days. All of the dates of Islamic observance are tentative because they are based on sightings of the moon. Those wishing to confirm the exact dates should call the Attendance and Leave Unit no more than 30 days before the date listed on the calendar.

MONTH

DATE

DAY

LEGAL HOLIDAYS

DAYS OF RELIGIOUS
SIGNIFICANCE

JANUARY

1

Monday

New Year's Day

Feast of the Circumcision (EO)
Solemnity of the Mother of God (RC)

6

Saturday   Feast of Epiphany (EO*) (P) (RC)

15

Monday Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day  

18 to
25

Thursday to
Thursday
  Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (P) (RC)

31

Wednesday   Tu Bi Shevat (OJ, CJ, RJ)

FEBRUARY

2

Friday

 

The Presentation of Christ (EO*)

10

Saturday   Saturday of Souls (EO)

12

Monday Lincoln's Birthday (1)  

14

Wednesday   Ash Wednesday (P) (RC)

17

Saturday

 

Saturday of Souls (EO)

18

Sunday

 

Sunday of Orthodoxy (EO)
First Sunday of Lent (P)

19

Monday

Washington's Birthday (Observed)

 

24

Saturday

 

Saturday of Souls (EO)

28

Wednesday

 

Fast of Esther (OJ, CJ, RJ)

MARCH

1

Thursday

 

Purim (OJ, CJ, RJ)

2

Friday

 

World Day of Prayer (P)

25

Sunday

 

Palm Sunday (P) (RC)
The Annuciation (EO*)

29

Thursday

 

Holy Thursday (RC)
Maundy Thursday (P)

30

Friday

 

First Passover Seder (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*)
Good Friday (P) (RC)

31

Saturday

 

Passover (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*)

APRIL

1

Sunday

 

Easter Sunday (P) (RC)
Palm Sunday (EO*)
Passover (OJ*, CJ*, RJ)

2 to 5

Monday to Thursday

 

Intermediate Days of Passover (OJ, CJ, RJ)

5

Thursday

 

Holy Thursday (EO*)

6

Friday

 

Good Friday (EO*)
Passover (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*)

7

Saturday

 

Holy Saturday (EO*)
Passover (OJ*, CJ*)

8

Sunday

 

Easter Sunday (EO*)

12

Thursday

 

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day)

13

Friday

 

The Feast of the Lifegiving Fountain (EO)

18

Wednesday

 

Yom HaZikaron (Day of Remembrance)

19

Thursday

 

Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day)

23

Monday

 

The Feast of Saint George (EO)

MAY

3

Thursday

 

Lag Ba Omer (OJ, CJ, RJ)

4

Friday

 

May Friendship Day (P)

10

Thursday

 

Ascension Thursday (P) (RC*)

13

Sunday

Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)

16

Wednesday

 

First Day of Ramadan (M) (2)

17

Thursday

 

Ascension Thursday (EO*)

20

Sunday

 

Pentecost (P) (RC)
Shavuot (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*)

21

Monday

 

Shavuot (OJ*, CJ*)
Feast of Sts. Constantine and Helen (EO)

26

Saturday

 

Saturday of Souls (EO)

27

Sunday

 

Pentecost (EO*)

28

Monday

Memorial Day

The Feast of the Holy Spirit (EO)

31

Thursday

 

Corpus Christi (RC) (may be observed on Sunday, June 3, 2018 in NYS Dioceses)

 

JUNE

 

3

Sunday

 

All Saints Day (EO)
Corpus Christi (RC) (observed in NYS Dioceses)

10

Sunday

Flag Day (3)

 

15

Friday

 

Eid-ul-Fitr (Festival of Fastbreaking) (M*)

29

Friday

 

Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (EO)

JULY

1

Sunday

 

The Fast of the 17th of Tammuz (OJ, CJ, RJ)

4

Wednesday

Independence Day

 

22

Sunday

 

Fast of the 9th of AV (OJ, CJ, RJ)

AUGUST

6

Monday

 

The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ (EO*)

15

Wednesday

 

Dormition of the Theotokos (EO)
The Assumption (RC*)
The Repose of the Blessed Mother (EO*)

21

Tuesday

 

Eid-ul-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) (M*)

SEPTEMBER

3

Monday

Labor Day

 

10

Monday

 

Rosh Hashanah (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*)

11

Tuesday

 

Rosh Hashanah (OJ*, CJ*, RJ)

14

Friday

 

The Elevation of the Holy Cross (EO*)

18

Tuesday

 

Kol Nidre (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*)

19

Wednesday

 

Yom Kippur (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*)

24

Monday

 

Sukkot (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*)

25

Tuesday

 

Sukkot (OJ*, CJ*)

26 to 30

Wednesday to Sunday

 

Intermediate Days of Sukkot (OJ, CJ, RJ)

OCTOBER

1

Monday

 

Shemini Atzeret (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*)

2

Tuesday

 

Simchat Torah (OJ*, CJ*)

7

Sunday

 

World Community Sunday (P)

8

Monday

Columbus Day

 

26

Friday

 

Feast of St. Demetrios (EO)

31

Wednesday

 

Reformation Day (P)

 

NOVEMBER

 

1

Thursday

 

All Saints Day (P) (RC*)

2

Friday

 

All Souls Day (RC)
World Community Day (P)

6

Tuesday

Election Day

 

11

Sunday

Veterans' Day (4)

 

12

Monday

Veterans' Day (Observed)

 

21

Wednesday

 

Presentation of the Virgin Mary (EO)

22

Thursday

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day (P)

DECEMBER

2

Sunday

 

First Sunday of Advent (P)

3 to 10

Monday to Monday

 

Chanukah (OJ, CJ, RJ)

6

Thursday

 

Feast of St. Nicholas (EO)

8

Saturday

 

Feast of the Immanculate Conception (RC*)

25

Tuesday

Christmas Day

Christmas Day (P)
Feast of the Nativity (EO*)
Feast of the Nativity of the Lord (RC*)

26

Wednesday

 

First Day of Kwanzaa (5)

27

Thursday

 

Feast of St. Stephen (EO)

(1) The State has designated Lincoln's Birthday as a floating holiday in 2018 for State employees in certain bargaining units.
(2) The observance of Ramadan is anticipated to begin on May 16, 2018.  See introduction, Note 8.
(3) Flag Day, the second Sunday in June, is not observed on the following Monday, and is not a paid holiday for State employees.
(4) Under the Attendance Rules, when a holiday falls on a Sunday, it is observed on the following Monday.
(5) Kwanzaa actually ends on January 1, 2019.

TM 43 - New or Revised Material - July 2017

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