A.R.S. § 38-608: Public Holiday Pay
Compensation or time off for legal holidays
How does Arizona's holiday pay law work for public employees?
In Arizona, public employees of the state, county, city, town, or other political subdivision who work forty hours or more per week and receive no compensation or time off for working a legal holiday (including Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, New Year's Day, and Independence Day) must receive one extra day of vacation leave or one extra day of pay for each such holiday worked, though this does not apply to employees of irrigation, power, electrical, agricultural, improvement, drainage, flood control, or tax-levying public improvement districts.
Full statute text
Official text last checked against azleg.gov:
38-608. Compensation or time off for legal holidays
A. All public employees who work forty hours or more per week who do not receive either compensation or commensurate time off for legal holidays worked, regardless of the day of the week on which such legal holidays fall, shall receive, for each such holiday worked, one day additional vacation leave or one day additional compensation for each such legal holiday worked.
B. For the purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Legal holiday" includes Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor day, New Year's day and Independence day.
2. "Public employee" includes the employees of the state, a county, city, town or any other political subdivision of the state, but does not include irrigation, power, electrical, agricultural, improvement, drainage and flood control districts, and tax-levying public improvement districts organized pursuant to law.
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