(a)

(1) All probationary or permanent employees who are part of the classified service shall be entitled to the following paid holidays if they are in a paid status during any portion of the working day immediately preceding or succeeding the holiday: (

A) January 1. (

B) February known as “Lincoln Day.” (

C) The third Monday in February known as “Washington Day.” (

D) The last Monday in May known as “Memorial Day.” (

E) July 4. (

F) The first Monday in September known as “Labor Day.” (

G) November known as “Veterans Day.” (

H) That Thursday in November proclaimed by the President as “Thanksgiving Day.” (

I) December 25. (

J) Every day appointed by the President, or the Governor of this state, as provided for in subdivisions (

c) and (

d) of

Section for a public fast, thanksgiving, or holiday. (

K) Any day declared a holiday under

Section for classified or academic employees.

(2) College recesses during the Christmas and Easter periods shall not be considered holidays for classified employees who are normally required to work during that period; provided, however, that this shall not be construed as affecting vacation rights specified in this section.

(3) For purposes of this section, “appointed by the President” includes the President signing into law legislation that creates a nationwide federal holiday, including the legal public holidays listed in subsection (

a) of

Section of Title of the United States Code, but does not include Columbus Day. This definition is declaratory of existing law. (

b) Regular employees of the community college district who are not normally assigned to duty during the community college holidays of December and January shall be paid for those two holidays if they were in a paid status during any portion of the working day of their normal assignment immediately preceding or succeeding the holiday period. (

c) When a holiday listed in this

section falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be deemed to be the holiday in lieu of the day observed. When a holiday listed in this

section falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be deemed to be the holiday in lieu of the day observed. When a classified employee is required to work on any of the holidays listed in this section, they shall be paid compensation, or given compensating time off, for such work, in addition to the regular pay received for the holiday, at the rate of time and one-half their regular rate of pay. (

d) Article 3 (commencing with

Section 79020) of

Chapter of Part shall not be construed to in any way limit this section, nor shall anything in this

section be construed to prohibit the governing board of a community college district from adopting separate work schedules for the academic and the classified services, or from providing holiday pay for employees who have not been in paid status on the days specified in this section. Notwithstanding the adoption of separate work schedules for the academic and the classified services, on any schoolday during which students would otherwise have been in attendance, but are not and for which faculty receive regular pay, classified personnel shall also receive regular pay whether or not they are required to report for duty that day. (

e) In addition to the other paid holidays specified in this section, the classified service may be entitled to a paid holiday on March known as “Cesar Chavez Day,” a paid holiday on April known as “Genocide Remembrance Day,” a paid holiday on the 15th day of the month of Kartik in the Hindu lunar calendar of each year, known as “Diwali,” and a paid holiday on the fourth Friday in September known as “Native American Day,” if they are in a paid status during any portion of the working day immediately preceding or succeeding the holiday, if the governing board of the community college district, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to

Chapter 10.7 (commencing with

Section 3540) of Division of Title of the Government Code, agrees to the paid holiday. (

f) In lieu of a paid holiday on February 12, Lincoln Day, or the third Monday in February, Washington Day, as specified in this section, the classified service shall be entitled to a paid holiday on the date corresponding to the Lunar New Year holiday selected pursuant to subdivision (

n) of

Section 79020, if they are in a paid status during any portion of the working day immediately preceding or succeeding the Lunar New Year holiday, if the governing board of the community college district, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to

Chapter 10.7 (commencing with

Section 3540) of Division of Title of the Government Code, agrees to the replacement holiday pursuant to subdivision (

n) of

Section 79020. (

g) This

section shall apply to community college districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of

Article 3 (commencing with

Section 88060).