To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Interim Chancellor Richard Herman" <rhh@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: wisehart@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - 2004 December Holiday Schedule

To:    Faculty and Staff

From:  Interim Chancellor Richard Herman

Re:    December Holiday Schedule

I am pleased to inform you that President Stukel and the Chancellors are 
granting two gift half-days on December 30 to complement the previously 
announced holiday time off for our faculty and staff during the upcoming 
holiday period.  In addition, Tuesday, December 28 and Wednesday, December 
29 will be designated as reduced services days.  The holiday period 
calendar can be viewed at http://www.oc.uiuc.edu/holiday_2004.  The 
University will not be officially closed and essential services will be 
provided.  However, offices will not be open for business and there will 
be no academic or student events.

The two reduced service days are not holidays, and you are asked to use 
accrued vacation or floating holidays to cover these two days.  If you are 
an academic or civil service staff member and wish to work during the 
reduced service days, please discuss suitable arrangements with your 
supervisor.  Hourly (nonexempt civil service) employees not using vacation 
or floating holidays to cover this period may take time without pay or use 
accrued compensatory time.  Nonexempt civil service employees who are 
required to work or who choose to work the reduced service days or the 
gift half-days will receive their regular hourly rate of pay.

Wednesday, December 29 is a payday for civil service employees.  Those who 
receive paper checks will be able to pick them up at a central location 
that day.  Information about the location and hours of operation will be 
disseminated to employees as soon as it becomes available.

If you are a civil service staff member and have questions concerning the 
reduced services period please contact Corbin Smith, Manager of Labor and 
Employee Relations, Personnel Services Office, at 333-3105 or 
cjsmith1@uillinois.edu.  Academic staff members should contact Debi Stone, 
Associate Director, Academic Human Resources Office, at 333-6747 or 
debstone@uiuc.edu.

I know that this past year has been difficult as we implemented a complex 
software system and coped with the accompanying process changes.  All of 
you have risen admirably to the challenges, and we appreciate the 
extraordinary efforts you have made.  Please know that the campus is in 
your debt.  My very best wishes to each of you.This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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