5 U.S.C. § 6103 — Holidays
submitted 60 years ago by Pub. L. 89-554 to r/title-5-GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATION-AND-EMPLOYEES · 532 words · no verdicts yet
This section lists legal public holidays and explains substitute holidays for different workweeks. It also establishes Inauguration Day as a holiday for specified employees and permits special rules for compressed schedules to prevent adverse agency impact.
(a) Legal public holidays are: New Year’s Day, January 1; Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, the third Monday in January; Washington’s Birthday, the third Monday in February; Memorial Day, the last Monday in May; Juneteenth National Independence Day, June 19; Independence Day, July 4; Labor Day, the first Monday in September; Columbus Day, the second Monday in October; Veterans Day, November 11; Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November; and Christmas Day, December 25.
(b) For pay and leave laws, these rules apply to a legal public holiday and any other day made a holiday by Federal statute or Executive order: (1) If it occurs Saturday, the preceding Friday is the holiday for (A) employees whose basic week is Monday through Friday and (B) section 6309’s purpose. (2) If it occurs on an employee’s regular weekly nonworkday, when the basic week is not Monday through Friday, the workday immediately before that nonworkday is the holiday, except for the nonworkday administratively scheduled instead of Sunday. (3) For an employee outside the United States whose basic week is not Monday through Friday and for whom Monday is normally a workday, a holiday designated under subsection (a) for Monday is the first workday of the week containing that Monday. Except for paragraph (1)(B), this subsection does not apply to an employee whose basic week is Monday through Saturday.
(c) January 20 of every fourth year after 1965, Inauguration Day, is a legal public holiday for pay and leave laws for employees defined in section 2105 and District of Columbia Government employees working in the District; Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, Maryland; Arlington and Fairfax Counties, Virginia; and Alexandria and Falls Church, Virginia. If that January 20 is Sunday, the next day chosen for public observance of the President’s inauguration is the holiday for this subsection.
(d)(1) For this subsection, (A) “compressed schedule” has the meaning in section 6121(5), and (B) “adverse agency impact” has the meaning in section 6131(b). This section does not define those terms. (2) An agency may make rules requiring employees on compressed schedules to observe a holiday falling on a regularly scheduled nonworkday on a different workday from subsection (b), despite other law or a collective-bargaining agreement, if the agency head decides this is necessary to prevent an adverse agency impact.
The following are legal public holidays:
New Year’s Day, January 1.
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., the third Monday in January.
Washington’s Birthday, the third Monday in February.
Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.
Juneteenth National Independence Day, June 19.
Independence Day, July 4.
Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
Columbus Day, the second Monday in October.
Veterans Day, November 11.
Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November.
Christmas Day, December 25.
For the purpose of statutes relating to pay and leave of employees, with respect to a legal public holiday and any other day declared to be a holiday by Federal statute or Executive order, the following rules apply:
Instead of a holiday that occurs on a Saturday, the Friday immediately before is a legal public holiday for—
employees whose basic workweek is Monday through Friday; and
the purpose of section 6309 1 of this title.
Instead of a holiday that occurs on a regular weekly non-workday of an employee whose basic workweek is other than Monday through Friday, except the regular weekly non-workday administratively scheduled for the employee instead of Sunday, the workday immediately before that regular weekly nonworkday is a legal public holiday for the employee.
Instead of a holiday that is designated under subsection (a) to occur on a Monday, for an employee at a duty post outside the United States whose basic workweek is other than Monday through Friday, and for whom Monday is a regularly scheduled workday, the legal public holiday is the first workday of the workweek in which the Monday designated for the observance of such holiday under subsection (a) occurs.
This subsection, except subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1), does not apply to an employee whose basic workweek is Monday through Saturday.
January 20 of each fourth year after 1965, Inauguration Day, is a legal public holiday for the purpose of statutes relating to pay and leave of employees as defined by section 2105 of this title and individuals employed by the government of the District of Columbia employed in the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties in Maryland, Arlington and Fairfax Counties in Virginia, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia. When January 20 of any fourth year after 1965 falls on Sunday, the next succeeding day selected for the public observance of the inauguration of the President is a legal public holiday for the purpose of this subsection.
For purposes of this subsection—
the term “compressed schedule” has the meaning given such term by section 6121(5); and
the term “adverse agency impact” has the meaning given such term by section 6131(b).
An agency may prescribe rules under which employees on a compressed schedule may, in the case of a holiday that occurs on a regularly scheduled non-workday for such employees, and notwithstanding any other provision of law or the terms of any collective bargaining agreement, be required to observe such holiday on a workday other than as provided by subsection (b), if the agency head determines that it is necessary to do so in order to prevent an adverse agency impact.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 515; Pub. L. 90–363, § 1(a), June 28, 1968, 82 Stat. 250; Pub. L. 94–97, Sept. 18, 1975, 89 Stat. 479; Pub. L. 98–144, § 1, Nov. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 917; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XVI, § 1613, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2739; Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title XI, § 1107, Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2142; Pub. L. 117–17, § 2, June 17, 2021, 135 Stat. 287.)
- 1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-554 · 80 Stat. 515
- 1968Amended · Pub. L. 90-363 · 82 Stat. 250
- 1975Amended · Pub. L. 94-97 · 89 Stat. 479
- 1983Amended · Pub. L. 98-144 · 97 Stat. 917
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-201 · 110 Stat. 2739
- 1998Amended · Pub. L. 105-261 · 112 Stat. 2142
- 2021Amended · Pub. L. 117-17 · 135 Stat. 287
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 89-554 on 1966-09-06.
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