Effective July 1, any WVU employee who has not used all available floating holiday hours through Applaud will forfeit those hours. The hours will be removed from the employee’s available floating holiday balance in the system.
On Dec. 16, 2020, a 7.5 hour floating holiday (prorated by FTE) was announced for all WVU and WVURC leave-eligible employees (prorated by FTE). The holiday was granted to eligible employees through the Applaud system, effective on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020.
There are situations in which an employee will use as much of his/her floating holiday hours as possible, but still will have a remaining balance that is .24 hours or less. This would apply to an employee who earned a prorated amount of floating holiday hours that were not an even quarter hour.
It is important that requests and approvals for use of floating holiday hours be completely processed in Applaud prior to June 30. Requests that are not submitted and approved by this deadline will be considered void and all remaining hours will be forfeited by the employee.
WVU employees may contact Benefits Strategy at CentralBA@mail.wvu.edu with questions.
WVURC employees may contact RC Benefits Strategy at rcbenefits@mail.wvu.edu with questions.