What Paid Holidays Will Connecticut Employers Offer in 2026?

CBIA surveys its members each fall to find out what paid holidays they will offer employees in the coming year. 

The results of the latest survey reflect responses from 154 Connecticut firms. 

Survey Results 

New Year’s Day Observations 

• Thursday, Jan. 1: 99% 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday  

• Monday, Jan. 19: 27% 

President’s Day  

• Monday, Feb. 16: 31% 

Good Friday  

• Friday, April 3: 54% 

Memorial Day 

• Monday, May 25: 98% 

Juneteenth  

• Friday, June 19: 23% yes, 1% considering 

Independence Day  

• Friday, July 3: 93% (federally observed)

Labor Day  

• Monday, Sept. 7: 99% 

Indigenous Peoples’ Day 

• Monday, Oct. 12: 17% 

Thanksgiving Day 

• Thursday, Nov. 26: 99% 

Day after Thanksgiving  

• Friday, Nov. 27: 85% 

Christmas Day  

• Friday, Dec. 25: 94% 

We also asked employers how employees are paid if the company closes for a week or more during a holiday period.  

Twenty percent said employees get a company—paid holiday, 13% use voluntary PTO, 11% are required to use PTO, and 2% said employees are not paid.

Roughly half of the companies surveyed said they do not shut down for a week at all.  

Survey Demographics 

Company type: 

• Manufacturing: 44% 

• Other Services: 17% 

• Professional and Business Services: 11% 

• Education and Health Services: 9% 

• Construction and Mining: 7% 

• Trade, Transportation, and Utilities: 4% 

• Leisure and Hospitality: 3% 

• Financial Activities: 2% 

•  Information: 2% 

Company size (by number of employees): 

• Less than 10: 6% 

• 11-50: 33% 

• 51-100: 17% 

• 101-250: 25% 

• 251–500: 12% 

• 501-plus: 7%