Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 27 - Personnel
Part 120 - Mississippi State Employee Handbook
Chapter 3 - HOLIDAYS AND LEAVE
Section 27-120-3.1 - HOLIDAYS
State employees receive regular pay for ten legal holidays and for any other day proclaimed as a holiday by the Governor of the State of Mississippi or the President of the United States. Employees who are not in an active pay status on a legal holiday will not be compensated for the holiday. Active pay status is defined as either physically working or on paid leave the day of a legal holiday, the day immediately preceding a legal holiday, or the day immediately following a legal holiday. Compensation for legal holidays for part-time employees will be computed on a pro-rata basis according to hours regularly scheduled to work.
The State of Mississippi observes the following legal holidays:
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January 1 |
New Year's Day |
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The Third Monday of January |
Robert E. Lee's Birthday and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday |
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The Third Monday of February |
Washington's Birthday |
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The Last Monday of April |
Confederate Memorial Day |
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The Last Monday of May |
National Memorial Day and Jefferson Davis' Birthday |
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July 4 |
Independence Day |
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The First Monday of September |
Labor Day |
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November 11 |
Armistice or Veterans' Day |
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A day fixed by proclamation by the Governor of Mississippi as a day of Thanksgiving, which shall be fixed to correspond to the date proclaimed by the United States President |
Thanks giving Day |
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December 25 |
Christmas Day |
In the event any of these holidays fall on a Saturday or Sunday, then the legal holiday will be observed as declared by the Governor.
Except as may be provided in specific agency appropriations bills, when, in the opinion of the agency, it is essential that a State employee work during an official State holiday, the employee will receive credit for the number of hours actually worked. In addition, and in accordance with specific provisions of an agency's appropriation bill, an agency may require employees in specific job classes to work on an official State holiday and be paid call-back pay in lieu of receiving compensatory time credit.
