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Dartmouth offers an extended holiday break between the fall and winter
terms. Therefore, in addition to the already scheduled Christmas (December 25
and 26, 2008) and New Year (January 1, 2009) holidays, the intervening
regularly scheduled workdays (December 29, 30, and 31, 2008) as well as January
2, 2009, are designated as "break days".
All regular staff and union employees, both full and part-time, are eligible
for the "break days", unless asked to work during this period to help the
College maintain essential services. Temporary employees are not eligible. Any
employee asked to work a "break day" will be paid at their normal base rate of
pay.
The temperature in buildings during the holidays and "break days" is reduced
to conserve energy. Temperatures will not be reduced in areas where essential
services are being provided, open to the public, laboratories, museums and
other similar spaces. If there are specific questions about the temperatures,
contact Facilities Operations and
Management (FO&M).
The executive officers will determine what essential services must be
maintained. It is expected that no more than 150 people will be asked to work
their "break days" to maintain essential services.
For people working their designated "break days", supervisors should try to
schedule alternative "break days" the week before Christmas. However, when this
is not possible, alternative "break days" can be taken anytime after the
holidays but before the end of the fiscal year (June 20, 2009). "Break days"
cannot be carried over into the next fiscal year.
Supervisors are responsible for keeping track of "break days" for their
employees. If bi-weekly paid, employees should indicate "break days" taken
under the "other" column of the payroll time sheet. If an employee has
bereavement, jury duty, or civic duty on a "break day" they should inform their
supervisor, indicate this on their time sheet, and arrange to take their "break
day" at another time before the end of the fiscal year.
Employees who terminate employment will not receive pay for the "break days"
taken during the 2008 Winter Break unless they work the next regularly
scheduled workday after the New Year holiday. "Break days" are not cumulative
and are not counted for termination pay. If an employee has remaining "break
days" and terminates employment before the end of the fiscal year, he/she is
not eligible to receive pay for those days.
Many department services will change schedules due to the Winter Break and
will make individual announcements.
2007 "break days" were December 26, 27, 28, and 31, 2007.
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