Part-time employees also will be excused from duty for the last half of any regularly scheduled tour of duty on December 24. This period will be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes.
Special rules apply to employees on flexible or compressed work schedules .
If Friday, December 25, is a nonworkday that falls outside a full-time employee's basic workweek, the December 25 holiday will be observed on the last workday immediately preceding December 25. If that day happens to be Thursday, December 24, the half-day holiday will be observed on the last workday immediately preceding December 24. Most employees who are excused from duty under the terms of the President's Executive order will receive the pay they would have received for the half-day holiday if no Executive order had been issued. However, an employee with an intermittent tour of duty is not entitled to pay for the half-day holiday unless he or she actually performs work during that period. An employee may not earn compensatory time off for work performed during the half-day holiday.