
National Day of Mourning for President James Earl Carter, Jr.; Government Closure Thursday January 9, 2025
FSIS Notice
52-24
Issue Date
Dec 31, 2024
Expiration Date
Jan 01, 2026
Full Notice
- PURPOSE
As the Nation mourns the loss of President James Earl Carter, Jr., the President has taken official action to allow Federal employees to join their fellow citizens in remembering our thirty-ninth President of the United States. The President has issued an Executive order to close Federal offices and excuse all Federal employees from duty for the scheduled workday on Thursday, January 9, 2025, except those who, in the judgment of the head of the agency, cannot be excused for reasons of national security, defense, or other essential public business. FSIS program employees who are required to work on January 9, 2025, will receive holiday premium pay, as detailed below. - TIMEKEEPING HOLIDAY INSTRUCTIONS
- Transaction code (TC) 66, Paid Holiday Time Off, will be granted to employees. Employees who cannot be excused are to report to work and will receive holiday premium pay, TC-31.
- Employees with leave scheduled (e.g., annual or sick leave) for January 9, 2025, will not be charged personal leave. Rather, they will be granted paid holiday time off for the time that personal leave was scheduled.
- Full-time employees under a standard work schedule (5 8-hour days/40-hour workweek) are entitled to 8 hours of paid holiday time off if they are excused from work.
- Employees on flexible work schedules (e.g., maxiflex) are entitled to 8 hours of paid holiday time off if they are excused from work. If employees are on a maxiflex schedule, and were not scheduled to work on Thursday, January 9, 2025, they are to select another day off within the same pay period.
- Employees on compressed schedules, for whom Thursday, January 9, 2025, is their Scheduled Day Off (SDO), are to observe an in-lieu of holiday on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, for the number of hours they were scheduled to work. If they are directed to work on Thursday, January 9, 2025, they will receive holiday premium pay.
- Part-time employees are entitled to a holiday only when the holiday falls on a day when they would otherwise be required to work.
- Employees who have “use or lose” annual leave scheduled for Thursday, January 9, 2025, are to re-schedule their leave. If they are unable to reschedule their leave, it will be forfeited; the law does not permit restoration of leave under these conditions.
- For inspection program personnel with shifts spanning two calendar days, the January 9, 2025, holiday will be observed on the shift beginning on January 9, 2025.
- No holiday charge should be made to industry for January 9, 2025 because this is not one of the eleven holidays cited in 5 U.S. Code § 6103 - Holidays. However, any time worked outside of the establishment's normal schedule of operations should be charged as reimbursable overtime (See Attachment 1).
- Any voluntary certification services will only be charged to industry at the appropriate base or overtime rate, not the holiday rate. The adjustment will be made by the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO).
- QUESTIONS
Refer questions to the Office of Human Resources at FSISHR1@usda.gov with the subject “Leave Policy.” For questions related to the recording of billing information contact the OCFO at FSCGeneral@usda.gov.