This floating holiday benefit is not attached to the standard PTO rounds and is not contingent on “PTO being available” on the unit.

Every year at the beginning of January.

The full benefit is 8 hours of time off, which is prorated by appointment fraction. For example, a nurse who is a 0.9 would receive 7.2 hours for their floating holiday benefit each year.

No, you cannot use the floating holiday benefit to supplement pay for call in days.

If any nurse is denied a request to use their floating holiday three times in a calendar year, MNA-UMPNC and Management will meet to discuss options and barriers to ensure that nurses are able to use this benefit.

You cannot cash out the hourly value of the floating holiday benefit. If the hours of the benefit are unused at the end of the year, the time is lost and resets as the next year starts. The time cannot be cashed out or rolled over into the next year.

Employees who use the floating holiday benefit for a shift that is greater in length than the number of prorated floating holiday hours may use PTO for the remainder of the hours or take no pay if they do not have enough PTO accrued to cover the remainder of the shift.

Floating Holidays are to be requested to your unit management team during schedule development.

Yes. The floating holiday hours cannot be broken up and must be taken at one time.

Yes, floating holidays take precedence over an R request from another employee.

No. The floating holiday benefit cannot be used when being assigned time off, whether it is voluntary or mandatory.