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WHAT'S NEW?
California Adopts a Total of 19 Holidays
California Government Code was amended this year to include the following holidays: 6700. (a) The holidays in this state are:
(1) Every Sunday.
(2) January 1.
(3) The third Monday in January, known as “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.”
(4) The date corresponding with the second new moon following the winter solstice, or the third new moon following the winter solstice should an intercalary month intervene, known as “Lunar New Year.”
(5) February 12, known as “Lincoln Day.”
(6) The third Monday in February.
(7) March 31, known as “Cesar Chavez Day.”
(8) April 24, known as “Genocide Remembrance Day.”
(9) The last Monday in May.
(10) June 19, known as “Juneteenth.”
(11) July 4.
(12) The first Monday in September.
(13) September 9, known as “Admission Day.”
(14) The fourth Friday in September, known as “Native American Day.”
(15) The second Monday in October, known as “Columbus Day.”
(16) November 11, known as “Veterans Day.”
(17) December 25.
(18) Good Friday from 12 noon until 3 p.m.
(19) (A) Every day appointed by the President or Governor for a public fast, thanksgiving, or holiday (Thanksgiving 4th Thursday of November)
For prevailing wage projects, each trade adopts its own designated holidays which is typically published on the Department of Industrial Relations’ website. However, for those few trades which do not adopt holidays from union collective bargaining agreements, then every holiday set forth above shall apply. While holiday pay does is not required when no work is performed on that day, a contractor may be caught unaware if the specific craft which is performing the work defaults to these holidays. If the holiday is
worked by the worker, then holiday pay must be paid.
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