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Annual Leave

Eligible employees accrue annual leave each pay period. Regular full-time employees accrue annual leave each pay period on the following schedule:

Years of Service 
0-3                  13 days (4 hours per pay period)
3 – 15             15 days (5 hours per pay period)
15+                 22 days (7 hours per pay period)

Direct Service and Wage employees:
Years of Service
0 – 3               13 days (4 hours per pay period)
3 – 15             20 days (6 hours per pay period)
15+                 26 days (8 hours per pay period)
*Wage grade and District Service (DS) employees hired after 1987

Upon termination, an employee will receive cash value for 100 percent of the remaining accrued annual leave not to exceed 240 hours.

Sick Leave

Eligible Administrative, Direct Service and Wage employees accrue 4 hours of sick leave each pay period (13 days) regardless of years of employment.

Pursuant to DPM §1242.1, sick leave may be granted as follows:

  1. When the employee requires personal medical, dental, or optical examination or treatment;
  2. When the employee is incapacitated for the performance of his or her duties by physical or mental illness, injury, pregnancy, or childbirth;
  3. When the employee would jeopardize the health of others by his or her presence on the job because of exposure to a communicable disease (as determined by appropriate health authorities or by a health care provider);
  4. When the employee’s absence is required to provide care for a family member who is incapacitated by a medical or mental condition or to attend to a family member receiving medical, dental, or optical examination or treatment;
  5. When the employee’s absence is required to provide care for a family member with a serious health condition;
  6. Because of the birth, or the placement for adoption, of a son or daughter of the employee, and in order to care for such son or daughter; or
  7. When the employee is absent because of the death of a family member, provided that such absence shall not exceed three (3) workdays (twenty-four (24) hours), and that the employee provides evidence that is acceptable to the agency.

 

Faculty who are hired to begin teaching at the University in or after the 2003/2004 academic year may accrue a maximum of 90 days of sick leave.

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