Leave & Holidays

UNC-Chapel Hill Holiday Schedule for 2019-2020:

Holiday	2019	2020
New Year’s Day	Tuesday, Jan. 1	Wednesday, Jan. 1
Martin Luther King Jr. Day	Monday, Jan. 21	Monday, Jan. 20
Spring Holiday	Friday, April 19	Friday, April 10
Memorial Day	Monday, May 27	Monday, May 25
Independence Day	Thursday, July 4	Friday, July 3
Labor Day	Monday, Sept. 2	Monday, Sept. 7
Thanksgiving	Thursday-Friday, Nov. 28-29	Thursday-Friday, Nov. 26-27
Winter Break	Tuesday-Friday, Dec. 24-27*	Thursday-Tuesday, Dec. 24-29*
University Closed Day**	Monday, Dec. 30	Wednesday, Dec. 30
New Year’s Eve** (Also University Closed Day)	Tuesday, Dec. 31	Thursday, Dec. 31

 

*12/27/2019 and 12/29/2020 represents the Veteran’s Day holiday

**On a University Closed Day, the University is closed and leave must be used. Employees can use vacation leave, bonus leave, or accrued compensatory time.

If you have any questions about the holiday schedule, please contact the Benefits & Leave Administration Unit in the Office of Human Resources at 919-962-307. UNC Health Care employees may follow a different holiday schedule than the University.

Twelve-month faculty are entitled to 24 days of vacation leave and 12 days of sick leave per calendar year. The amount of annual leave is adjusted proportionately for part-time faculty members in covered positions who work half-time or more. Leave is earned on a monthly basis. The monthly earnings amount is equal to one-twelfth of the annual leave accrual rate for each month the faculty member works or is on an approved least with pay at least half the working days of the month.

Nine-month faculty members do not earn either vacation or sick leave. They are eligible for paid serious illness and parental leave (see Leave of Absence section for additional details).

Permanent employees regularly scheduled to work at least 20 or more hours per week, and who are in pay status for at least one-half of the days in a month, are eligible to earn leave. Permanent full-time employees (40 hours per week) earn vacation and sick leave according to the chart below. Employees who work less than 40 hours per week earn leave on a pro-rated basis according to the number of scheduled work hours each week.

EHRA Non-Faculty Employees are entitled to 24 days of vacation leave and 12 days of sick leave per calendar year. The amount of annual leave is adjusted proportionately for part-time employees in covered positions who work half-time or more. Leave shall be earned on a monthly basis. The monthly earnings amount is equal to one-twelfth of the annual leave accrual rate for each month the employee works or is on an approved least with pay at least half the working days of the month.

The Chancellor, Provost, Deans and Directors of major centers who are classified as EHRA Non-Faculty Tier 1 Senior Academic and Administrative Officers are entitled to 26 days of vacation leave and 12 days of sick leave per calendar year.

The University has a voluntary “Shared Leave” program that allows one employee to assist another employee in the case of a prolonged medical condition that exhausts the employee’s available leave and would otherwise force the employee to be placed in leave without pay status, resulting in a loss of income and benefits.

Learn more: Voluntary Shared Leave

The University makes available a variety of leave programs for employees including:

• Bonus Leave
• Civil Leave
• Community Service Leave
• Educational Leave
• Emergency Paid Sick Leave (EPSL) & Expanded Family Medical Leave (EFML)
• Faculty Serious Illness, Major Disability, and Parental Leave Policy
• Family & Medical Leave (FMLA)
• FMLA Military Caregiver/Qualifying Exigency Leave
• Family Illness Leave
• Leave Without Pay
• Paid Parental Leave
• Military Leave
• Voluntary Shared Leave