In September 2025, the NYS Workers' Compensation Board (Board) issued a Subject Number regarding 2026 Legal Holidays and Board Closures, which sets forth the dates the Board is closed, or open and not conducting hearings due to a holiday. Following that Subject Number, the Board announced additional administrative workdays in 2026 where the Board remains open, but hearings will not be held.
The complete and up-to-date list of Board closure dates for 2026 is below.
Board Holidays / Days Closed:
- New Year's Day - Thursday, January 1
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Monday, January 19
- Washington's Birthday - Monday, February 16
- Memorial Day - Monday, May 25
- Juneteenth - Friday, June 19
- Labor Day - Monday, September 7
- Columbus Day - Monday, October 12
- Veteran's Day - Wednesday, November 11
- Thanksgiving Day - Thursday, November 26
- Christmas Day - Friday, December 25
Board Open - No Hearings (Except as Noted):
- Passover - Thursday, April 2
- Good Friday - Friday, April 3
- Rosh Hashanah - Friday, September 11 (a.m. hearings only; no p.m. hearings)
- Yom Kippur - Monday, September 21
- Day after Thanksgiving - Friday, November 27
- Christmas Eve - Thursday, December 24
- New Year's Eve - Thursday, December 31
Floating Holiday (Board Open, Regular Hearing Schedule):
- Lincoln's Birthday - Thursday, February 12
Additional Administrative Workdays (Board open, no hearings):
- Friday, January 2
- Friday, January 16
- Friday, February 6
- Friday, February 20
- Friday, March 6
- Friday, March 20
- Friday, April 17
- Friday, May 1
- Friday, May 15
- Friday, June 5
- Thursday, June 18
- Friday, July 3
- Friday, July 17
- (Rochester office only) Friday, July 31
- Friday, August 7 (Exception - Rochester office will be open)
- Friday, August 21
- Friday, September 18
- Friday, October 16
- Friday, November 20
- Friday, December 18