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Leave-accruing academic personnel, USPS and TEAMS employees are eligible for ten paid holidays each year. All full-time leave-accruing academic personnel, TEAMS and USPS employees earn eight hours of holiday pay. Part-time employees are entitled to holiday time in proportion to their FTE. Please do not submit leave requests for holidays – holidays are automatically entered into PeopleSoft.

2026 Holidays

  • New Year’s Day – Thursday, January 1
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday – Monday, January 19
  • Memorial Day – Monday, May 25
  • Independence Day (observed) – Friday, July 3 (since July 4, 2026, is a Saturday)
  • Labor Day – Monday, September 7
  • UF Homecoming – TBA
  • Veterans Day – Wednesday, November 11
  • Thanksgiving – Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27
  • Christmas – Friday, December 25

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