Human Resources

County-Observed Holidays for the Year 2012

• New Year's Day, Monday, January 2, 2012
• Martin Luther King's Birthday, Monday, January 16, 2012
• President's Day, Monday, February 20, 2012
• Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2012
• Independence Day, Wednesday, July 4, 2012
• Labor Day, Monday, September 3, 2012
• Columbus Day, Monday, October 8, 2012
• Veterans Day, Monday, November 12, 2012
• Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 22, 2012
• Friday after Thanksgiving, Friday, November 23, 2012
• Christmas Day, Tuesday, December 25, 2012
  
  
• View the 2012 pay schedule

General Government

All county offices (including libraries) will be closed on all eleven County holidays.

Transit

Normally-scheduled county bus, Metrorail and Metromover service is provided on all holidays except for New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day, when service operates on a Sunday schedule.

Garbage / Trash Collection and Trash / Recycling (T&R) Centers

Waste is collected on all holidays (as observed by Miami-Dade County) except:

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Independence Day (July 4)
• Christmas Day (December 25)

County Employees

In addition to the 11 Observed County Holidays, below are an extra two that are provided to a County employees.

• Floating Holiday
  The Floating Holiday is to be taken at the mutual convenience of the employee and the department. This holiday is not compensable and cannot be accrued or transferred from one fiscal year to the next. Only career employees having more than nine pay periods of County service are eligible to use this holiday. The employee earns this holiday at the beginning of each fiscal year (October 1st).
  
• Birthday Holiday
  The Birthday Holiday Is also taken at the mutual convenience of the employee and the department and must be taken within six months of occurrence or it is forfeited. Neither the Birthday Holiday nor the Floating Holiday is paid out at termination.

Employees who are out of pay status for any portion of the day before or after a holiday will not be eligible to be paid for, or bank, the holiday.