An employee who is required to work nonovertime hours on January 9th is entitled to holiday premium pay. Image: Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffPresident Biden has ordered federal agencies closed January 9 as a national day of mourning on the death of former President Carter.
“The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on January 9, 2025, for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need,” says the executive order.
That is language similar to that used in other instances of agencies being closed—such as the one that closed agencies on December 24—and in a memo on chcoc.gov, OPM issued similar guidance regarding the impact.
That includes:
* “Most employees who are excused from duty as a result of the President’s Executive order will receive the basic pay they would have received if no Executive order had been issued. An employee who was previously scheduled to take annual leave on January 9, 2025 (or applicable in-lieu of day), will not be charged annual leave (or any other form of paid leave, compensatory time off, or credit hours) for the employee’s scheduled workday.”
* “An employee who is required to work nonovertime hours on January 9th is entitled to holiday premium pay” (an add-on equal to their basic pay),” with the exception of those who receive annual premium pay for standby duty and firefighters covered by certain special pay provisions.
* If an employee has scheduled “use or lose” annual leave for that day, and is unable to reschedule that leave for use before the end of the leave year (for most employees, January 11), the leave will be forfeited.
* Because the grant of a day off creates two holidays in the same pay period (in addition to the January 1 holiday), full-time employees on flexible schedules under which they work more than 8 hours a day must make arrangements to work extra hours during other regularly scheduled workdays, or take annual leave or use credit hours or compensatory time off, in order to fulfill the 80-hour biweekly work requirement.
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