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N.J.A.C. 4A:6-2.4 Holidays: State service

N.J.A.C. 4A:6-2.4, Holidays: State service. Holidays as authorized by law or Executive Order shall be allowed as days off with regular pay for full-time employees. Part-time employees who work a const Full text with 2 recorded amendments, 2 citing decisions, cited by 2 other rules.

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Current through New Jersey Register, Vol. 58 No. 14, July 20, 2026. Reviewed as of July 26, 2026.

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In plain language

Holidays authorised by law or Executive Order are days off with regular pay for full-time State employees, and part-time employees working a constant percentage of a full week receive holiday leave credit in proportion. Intermittent employees are handled by formula: hours in regular pay status that pay period, divided by what a full-time employee would work in it, multiplied by the holiday hours, paid at the end of the bi-weekly period. An intermittent employee who resigns, is removed or is laid off before the last day of that period receives no holiday pay for it. A holiday falling on a Saturday is observed the preceding Friday, and one falling on a Sunday the following Monday. Pay turns on being in pay status the day immediately before, and a voluntary furlough or furlough extension leave that day does not forfeit it as long as the employee is in pay status during the pay period containing the holiday.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:6-2.4. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

(a) Holidays as authorized by law or Executive Order shall be allowed as days off with regular pay for full-time employees. Part-time employees who work a constant percentage of a full workweek shall receive holiday leave credit on a proportionate basis. #

(b) Employees in intermittent titles shall receive holiday leave credit based on accumulated hours of work as follows: #

1. Holiday pay shall be paid at the end of a bi-weekly pay period and shall be calculated by dividing the number of hours the employee was in regular pay status in that pay period by the number of hours which a full-time employee would work during that pay period, and then multiplying that amount by the number of holiday hours for that pay period. #

2. An intermittent employee who has resigned, been removed or been laid off prior to the last day of the pay period shall not receive holiday pay for that pay period. #

(c) When an authorized State holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be observed as the holiday. When an authorized holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be observed as the holiday. #

(d) Employees who are in pay status on the day immediately before an authorized holiday shall receive pay for the holiday. An employee on a voluntary furlough or a furlough extension leave on the day before a holiday shall receive pay for the holiday as long as the employee is in pay status during the pay period in which the holiday falls. #

Amendment history

Rule numbers, effective dates and New Jersey Register citations as published. 2 recorded changes.

  1. AmendedR.1995 d.12
    26 N.J.R. 4126(a); 27 N.J.R. 145(a); 52 N.J.R. 1479(b)
  2. AmendedR.1990 d.48
    21 N.J.R. 3337(a); 22 N.J.R. 166(b)

How this rule has been applied

2 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:6-2.4. The list below is citations to those decisions, not the decisions. We have not written summaries for this section. A citation with no summary is deliberate: we do not paraphrase a decision we have not read. Nothing here is legal advice.

Civil Service Commission final determinations (2)
  • In re Hitchner, Dep't of Envtl. Prot., CSC Docket No. 2019-21412020 N.J. CSC LEXIS 6Docket 2019-2141
  • In re Tinishia Williams, Dep't of Human Servs., CSC Docket No. 2014-19702014 N.J. CSC LEXIS 633Docket 2014-1970

Rules that point here

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