Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, Please review the CUNY Time to Vote Notice to Employees, which is also posted on the University Human Resources website. This guidance applies to Election Day only, and not the early voting period, and is applicable to staff for whom Election Day is not a paid legal holiday. Please refer to the 2026-2027 Holiday Schedule to review which employees are eligible for Election Day as a paid holiday.
Voting FAQs can be found online.
- Employees are eligible for voting leave only if they do not have four consecutive hours either between the opening of the polls and the beginning of their working shift, or between the end of their working shift and the closing of the polls; and
- Employees who do not have a four-hour window are eligible to take off only as much working time as will enable, when added to their voting time outside working hours, the employee to vote, up to a maximum of three hours of which time must be without loss of pay.
If an employee plans to take time off to vote per the guidelines above, the employee should indicate the hours on the corresponding time sheet. Voters may request an absentee ballot by going online.
By the Office of Human Resources
