Section 12. Holidays

12.1 The holidays for the County are:

(1) January 1 (New Year’s Day)

(2) Third Monday in January (Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birthday)

(3) Third Monday in February (Washington’s Birthday)

(4) Last Monday in May (Memorial Day)

(5) June 19 (Juneteenth)

(6) July 4 (Independence Day)

(7) First Monday in September (Labor Day)

(8) Second Monday in October (Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day)

(9) November 11 (Veterans Day)

(10) Fourth Thursday in November (Thanksgiving Day)

(11) Friday following Thanksgiving Day

(12) December 25 (Christmas)

(13) Every day appointed by the President of the United States or the Governor of the State of California to be a day of public mourning, thanksgiving, or holiday. The granting of such holidays shall be discretionary with the Board of Supervisors.

If the legislature or the Governor appoints a date different from the one shown above for the observance of one of these holidays, then San Mateo County shall observe the holiday on the date appointed by the Legislature or the Governor.

In the event a County department temporarily closes or adopts minimal staffing on Winter Recess Days, an extra help employee may request, and may be assigned, to work if the employee’s manager identifies alternate, available work within the employee’s classification with appropriate supervision.

If one of the holidays listed above falls on Sunday, the holiday will be observed on a Monday. In County facilities where there is 24-hour per day coverage, employees in those facilities working such coverage shall observe holidays on the actual day of the holiday.

12.2 Holiday Pay

(1) Extra-help employees who work on a holiday shall be compensated for such time worked at the rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) times the straight-time rate as provided in the Overtime Section of this MOU for their work group.

(2) Extra-help employees who work their scheduled day immediately before and after a holiday, but do not work on the holiday itself, shall receive holiday pay at straight time for the holiday in the amount equal to:

 One-half of the normal hours worked per day by the extra help employee over the preceding two pay periods up to a maximum of four (4) hours holiday pay per holiday, or

 If hours per day vary, one-half(1/2) of the daily average of normal hours worked over the preceding two pay periods up to a maximum of four (4) hours holiday pay per holiday.

(3) For non-seasonal, Extra-Help Employees who have worked a minimum of two thousand eighty (2,080) continuous hours of extra-help work with the County without a break in service, and who work their scheduled day immediately before and after a holiday, but do not work on the holiday itself, shall receive holiday pay at straight time for the holiday in the amount equal to:

 The normal hours worked per day by the extra help employee over the preceding two pay periods up to a maximum of eight (8) hours holiday pay per holiday, or

 If hours per day vary, the daily average of normal hours worked over the preceding two pay periods up to a maximum of eight (8) hours holiday pay per holiday.

Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to extra-help employees who work the holiday.