ATTENDANCE AND LEAVE MANUAL
TRANSMITTAL MEMORANDUM NO. 42
Appendix B
August 2016
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 | |
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(1) Introduction |
Appendix B |
1-2 |
August 2016 |
(2) 2017 Calendar of Legal Holidays and Days of Religious Significance |
Appendix B
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3-6
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August 2016
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The following material should be retained until July 5, 2019, and then removed from your copy of the Manual and destroyed.
Section | Pages | Date | |
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(1) Introduction | Appendix B | 1-2 | June 2015 |
(2) 2016 Calendar of Legal Holidays and Days of Religious Significance |
Appendix B | 3-6 | June 2015 |
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:- 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 - All days of religious significance for the Jewish faith begin at sundown on the evening before the date given.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Eastern Orthodox Church requires its members to attend Divine Liturgy on Sundays and on days of required religious observance.
- 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.
- 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 |
JANUARY |
1 |
Sunday |
New Year's Day(1) |
Feast of the Circumcision (EO*) |
2 |
Monday | New Year's Day (Observed) | ||
6 |
Friday | Feast of Epiphany (EO*) (P) (RC) | ||
16 |
Monday | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | ||
18 to |
Wednesday to Wednesday |
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (P) (RC) | ||
FEBRUARY |
2 |
Thursday |
|
The Presentation of Christ (EO*) |
3 |
Friday | World Community Day (P) | ||
11 |
Saturday | Tu Bi Shevat (OJ, CJ, RJ) | ||
12 |
Sunday |
Lincoln's Birthday |
|
|
13 |
Monday |
Lincoln's Birthday (Observed) |
|
|
18 |
Saturday |
|
Saturday of Souls (EO) |
|
20 |
Monday |
Washington's Birthday (Observed) |
|
|
25 |
Saturday |
|
Saturday of Souls (EO) |
|
MARCH |
1 |
Wednesday |
|
Ash Wednesday (P) (RC) |
3 |
Friday |
|
World Day of Prayer (P) |
|
4 |
Saturday |
|
Saturday of Souls (EO) |
|
5 |
Sunday |
|
Sunday of Orthodoxy (EO) |
|
9 |
Thursday |
|
Fast of Esther (OJ, CJ, RJ) |
|
12 |
Sunday |
|
Purim (OJ, CJ, RJ) |
|
25 |
Saturday |
|
The Annunciation (EO*) |
|
APRIL |
9 |
Sunday |
|
Palm Sunday (EO*) (P) (RC) |
10 |
Monday |
|
First Passover Seder (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*) |
|
11 |
Tuesday |
|
Passover (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*) |
|
12 |
Wednesday |
|
Passover (OJ*, CJ*, RJ) |
|
13 |
Thursday |
|
Holy Thursday (EO*) (RC) |
|
13 to 16 |
Thursday to Sunday |
|
Intermediate Days of |
|
14 |
Friday |
|
Good Friday (EO*) (P) (RC) |
|
15 |
Saturday |
|
Holy Saturday (EO*) |
|
16 |
Sunday |
|
Easter Sunday (EO*) (P) (RC) |
|
17 |
Monday |
|
Passover (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*) |
|
18 |
Tuesday |
|
Passover (OJ*, CJ*) |
|
21 |
Friday |
|
The Feast of the Lifegiving Fountain (EO) |
|
23 |
Sunday |
|
The Feast of Saint George (EO) |
|
24 |
Monday |
|
Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) |
|
MAY |
1 |
Monday |
|
Yom Hazikaron (Day of Remembrance) |
2 |
Tuesday |
Yom Haatzmaut (Israel Independence Day) |
||
5 |
Friday |
|
May Friendship Day (P) |
|
14 |
Sunday |
|
Lag Ba Omer (OJ, CJ, RJ) |
|
21 |
Sunday |
|
Feast of Sts. Constantine and |
|
24 |
Wednesday |
|
Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) |
|
25 |
Thursday |
|
Ascension Thursday (EO*) (P) (RC*) |
|
27 |
Saturday |
|
First Day of Ramadan (M) (3) |
|
29 |
Monday |
Memorial Day |
|
|
31 |
Wednesday |
|
Shavuot (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*) |
|
JUNE | 1 |
Thursday |
Shavuot (OJ*, CJ*) |
|
3 |
Saturday |
Saturday of Souls (EO) | ||
4 |
Sunday |
The Feast of the Holy Spirit (EO) |
||
11 |
Sunday |
Flag Day (4) |
|
|
18 |
Sunday |
Corpus Christi (RC) | ||
25 |
Sunday |
All Saints Day (EO) |
||
29 |
Thursday |
Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (EO) | ||
JULY |
4 |
Tuesday |
Independence Day |
|
11 |
Tuesday | The Fast of Tammuz (OJ, CJ, RJ) |
||
AUGUST |
1 |
Tuesday |
|
Fast of AV (OJ, CJ, RJ) |
6 |
Sunday |
|
The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ (EO*) |
|
15 |
Tuesday |
|
The Repose of the Blessed Mother (EO*) |
|
SEPTEMBER |
1 |
Friday |
|
Eid-ul-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) (M*) |
4 |
Monday |
Labor Day |
|
|
14 |
Thursday |
|
The Elevation of the Holy Cross (EO*) |
|
21 |
Thursday |
|
Rosh Hashanah (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*) |
|
22 |
Friday |
|
Rosh Hashanah (OJ*, CJ*, RJ) |
|
29 |
Friday |
|
Kol Nidre (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*) |
|
30 |
Saturday |
|
Yom Kippur (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*) |
|
OCTOBER |
1 |
Sunday |
|
World Communion Sunday (P) |
5 |
Thursday |
|
Sukkot (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*) |
|
6 |
Friday |
|
Sukkot (OJ*, CJ*) |
|
7 to 11 |
Saturday to Wednesday |
|
Intermediate Days of Sukkot (OJ, CJ, RJ) |
|
9 |
Monday |
Columbus Day |
|
|
12 |
Thursday |
|
Shemini Atzeret (OJ*, CJ*, RJ*) |
|
13 |
Friday |
|
Simchat Torah (OJ*, CJ*) |
|
26 |
Thursday |
|
Feast of St. Demetrios (EO) |
|
31 |
Monday | Reformation Day (P) | ||
NOVEMBER
|
1 |
Wednesday |
|
All Saints Day (P) (RC*) |
2 |
Thursday |
|
All Souls Day (RC) |
|
7 |
Tuesday |
Election Day |
|
|
11 |
Saturday |
Veterans' Day |
|
|
21 |
Tuesday |
|
Presentation of the Virgin Mary (EO*) |
|
23 |
Thursday |
Thanksgiving Day |
Thanksgiving Day (P) |
|
DECEMBER |
3 |
Sunday |
|
First Sunday of Advent (P) |
6 |
Wednesday |
|
Feast of St. Nicholas (EO) |
|
8 |
Friday |
|
Feast of the Immaculate Conception (RC*) |
|
13 to 20 |
Wednesday to Wednesday |
|
Chanukah (OJ, CJ, RJ) |
|
25 |
Monday |
Christmas Day |
Christmas Day (P) |
|
26 |
Tuesday |
|
First Day of Kwanzaa (5) |
|
27 |
Wednesday |
|
Feast of St. Stephen (EO) |
(1) Under the Attendance Rules, when a holiday falls on a Sunday, it is observed on the following Monday.
(2) The State has designated Lincoln's Birthday as a floating holiday in 2017 for State employees in certain bargaining units.
(3) The observance of Ramadan is anticipated to begin on May 27, 2017. See introduction, Note 8.
(4) Flag Day, the second Sunday in June, is not observed on the following Monday, and is not a paid holiday for State employees.
(5) Kwanzaa actually ends on January 1, 2018.