Policy No. 109: Annual Leave

Policy Number: 109 Effective Date: 12/01/85
Polity Title: Annual Leave Revised: 07/01/97; 03/15/05
Approval Date: 12/11/06 President’s Signature:capehart_sig

STATEMENT:

Eligible employees are granted annual leave with the amount of leave based on the level of position, responsibility, service and other factors. All annual leave accruals are pro-rated according to the full-time equivalency (FTE) of the individual position.

PROVISIONS:

I. ELIGIBILITY AND ANNUAL ALLOWANCE

Except as otherwise provided herein, eligible employees shall accumulate and receive annual leave with pay as follows:

A. Non-classified positions and administrative faculty with 12-month contracts shall be eligible for 24 days’ total leave per year, calculated at the rate of 2 days per month from the date of employment.  If employed on or before the 15th of the month, credit is given for the month.  If employed on the 16th of the month or after, annual leave is calculated from the 1st of the following month.

B. All other benefit eligible employees in the classified positions shall be eligible for annual leave with pay on the following basis:

1. Less than 5 years service (60 months) = 10 hours per month -15 days per year;

2. 5 – 10 years service (120 months) = 12 hours per month – 18 days per year;

3. 10 – 15 years service (180 months) = 14 hours per month – 21 days per year;

4. 15 or more years service = 16 hours per month – 24 days per year.

C. Term of service described in B above shall be total service and does not require continuous service to fulfill the required term. However, employees on a leave of absence without pay do not accrue annual leave for the time they are off the payroll.

D. Employees working .53 FTE or more on a regular and continuing basis shall accumulate annual leave on a pro-rata basis to the limits described above in “B”.