The following holidays will be observed by the University of Pennsylvania in the upcoming fiscal year (July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017) on the dates listed below:

Independence Day, Monday, July 4, 2016

Labor Day, Monday, September 5, 2016

Thanksgiving, Thursday and Friday, November 24 & 25, 2016

Christmas Day, Monday, December 26, 2016

New Year’s Day, Monday, January 2, 2017

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 16, 2017

Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, 2017

To the University Community:

Each year, the President, Provost and EVP assess the feasibility of observing Penn’s traditional Special Winter Vacation. Thus, the Special Winter Vacation granted to faculty and staff will be December 27, 28, 29 and 30, 2016. If an employee is required to work to continue departmental operations for part or all of this period, the special winter vacation can be rescheduled for some other time.

Staff members who are absent from work either the work day before a holiday, the work day after a holiday or both days will receive holiday pay if that absence is charged to preapproved paid time off or to sick days substantiated by a written note from the staff member’s health care provider.

Vacations and holidays for hospital employees or those staff members in collective bargaining units are governed by the terms of hospital policies or their respective collective bargaining agreements.

—Division of Human Resources