The following holidays will be observed by the University in the upcoming fiscal year (July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021) on the dates listed below:

• Independence Day, Friday, July 3, 2020
• Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 2020
• Thanksgiving, Thursday and Friday, November 26 & 27, 2020
• Christmas Day, Friday, December 25, 2020
• New Year’s Day, Friday, January 1, 2021
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 18, 2021
• Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, 2021

To the University Community:

Each year, the President, Provost and Executive Vice President assess the feasibility of observing Penn’s traditional Special Winter Vacation. Thus, the Special Winter Vacation granted to faculty and staff will be December 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 2020 and January 4, 5, 2021. 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 pre-approved paid time off or to sick time 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