Holidays.
Indianapolis-Marion County Revised Code § 291-206
in effectSec. 291-206. - Holidays.
(a) Designated. The following are designated as city and county holidays for full-time and part-time employees:
New Year's Day (January 1st);
Martin Luther King Day (third Monday of January);
President's Day (third Monday of February);
Memorial Day (last Monday of May);
Juneteenth Observed (June 19 th );
Independence Day Observed (July 4th);
Labor Day (first Monday of September);
Indigenous People's Day (second Monday of October);
Veteran's Day (November 11th);
Thanksgiving Eve, close at Noon (fourth Wednesday of November);
Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday of November);
Friday after Thanksgiving;
Day before Christmas Eve, close at Noon (December 23rd);
Christmas Eve (December 24 th );
Christmas Day (December 25 th );
New Year's Eve, close at Noon (December 31 st );
Floating Holiday. This floating holiday shall be taken on a day of the employee's choosing with the approval of the employee's supervisor. Such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. The floating holiday must be taken as a full work day. It shall be taken once each year and will not carry over from year to year and will not be paid out upon the employee's separation;
Primary Election Day; and
General Election Day in years with state and municipal elections;
provided; however, that nothing in this ordinance shall prevent the offices of the county clerk, county prosecutor and the courts from designating holidays recognized by the judicial branch. The Marion County Public Defender Agency shall follow the holiday schedule and closures as set forth in any current collective bargaining agreement between that Agency and the bargaining agent of the members of that Agency.
(b) Days celebrated as holidays in Monday-through-Friday operations.
(1) In Monday-through-Friday operations, when any of these holidays occur on Sunday, the Monday succeeding shall be designated as the legal holiday. When any holiday occurs on Saturday, the Friday preceding shall be designated as the legal holiday. Otherwise, employees shall observe the actual holiday.
(2) Holiday pay for unworked holiday. Employees shall receive holiday pay at the employee's regular straight time rate for each of the designated holidays, if the employee is normally scheduled to work on the day that has been designated as a holiday.
(3) An employee who is required to work on the actual holiday shall be paid time and one-half in addition to holiday pay for all time authorized for work on the day designated as the holiday, or compensatory time and one-half off as determined by the department or agency.
(c) Days celebrated as holidays in continuing operations.
(1) In continuing seven-day-a-week operations, employees will observe the actual holiday, if possible, and will receive the employee's regular straight time rate for each of the designated holidays, if the employee is normally scheduled to work on the day that has been designated as a holiday.
(2) If the holiday is observed on a day of the week when an employee is not normally scheduled to work, the employee shall observe the employee's next regularly scheduled work day as a holiday and receive holiday pay at the employee's regular straight time rate.
(3) An employee who is required to work on the actual holiday shall be paid time and one-half in addition to holiday pay for all time authorized for work on the day designated as the holiday, or compensatory time and one-half off as determined by the department or agency.
(d) Days celebrated as holidays when employee is on a compressed or alternate work schedule.
(1) Employees shall observe the actual holiday, if possible, and shall receive holiday pay at the employee's regular straight time rate for the number of hours the employee would have been regularly scheduled to work on that day.
(2) If a holiday is observed on a day of the week when an employee is not normally scheduled to work, the employee shall observe the employee's next regularly scheduled work day as a holiday and shall receive holiday pay for the number of hours the employee would have been regularly scheduled to work on that day.
(3) An employee who is required to work on the actual holiday shall be paid time and one-half in addition to holiday pay for all time authorized for work on the day designated as the holiday, or compensatory time and one-half off as determined by the department or agency.
(e) Eligibility for holiday pay. To be eligible, the employee must work the full scheduled workday before and the full scheduled workday following the holiday, unless the employee is on a paid leave of absence. In Monday-through-Friday operations, there shall be no duplication or pyramiding of holiday pay.
(f) Failure to report for scheduled work. Any employee scheduled for work on a day designated as a holiday, who fails to report for work or absents himself or herself for that day, shall not be eligible for holiday pay or compensatory time off as the case may be. Regardless of whether the absence is approved or not, any employee scheduled to work on a holiday, who fails to work that holiday, must use paid leave time to be paid for that day.
(g) Temporary employees. Temporary/seasonal and part-time/temporary employees do not receive holiday pay.
(Code 1875, § 23-29; G.O. 73, 2005, § 31; G.O. 71, 2008, § 17; G.O. 54, 2015, § 1; G.O. 48, 2020, § 1; G.O. 38, 2021, § 5; G.O. 1, 2026, § 1)
Source: Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County, Revised Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/in/indianapolis_-_marion_county/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIORAD_CH291PE_ARTIILEHO_S291-206HOFetched: 10/27/2026