N.M. Code R. § 1.7.4.17 - HOLIDAY PAY

A. When an authorized holiday falls on an employee's regularly scheduled workday and the employee is not required to work, the employee shall be paid at their hourly rate of pay for the number of hours they would have normally worked.

B. Full-time employees, whose normal work schedule does not include the day observed as a holiday, shall be entitled to time off equal to the employee's normal workday.

C. Employees required to work on the day a holiday is observed, shall be compensated at two and one-half times their hourly rate of pay for all hours actually worked on the holiday. Such compensation shall be in the form of straight time cash payment for all hours actually worked and additional premium compensation, at the agency's discretion, of either compensatory time off or cash payment at one and one-half times the usual hourly rate of pay for all hours actually worked.

D. Part-time employees whose normal work schedule does not include the day a holiday is observed shall not be compensated for the holiday.

E. Employees who have been charged absence without leave on the workday prior to or directly following a holiday shall not be paid for the holiday.

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N.M. Code R. § 1.7.4.17

1.7.4.17 NMAC - Rp, 1.7.4.15 NMAC, 11/14/02; 1.7.4.17 NMAC - Rn, 1.7.4.18 NMAC, 12-30-05, Adopted by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXII, Issue 13, July 7, 2021, eff. 8/1/2021