3.6.5.8 Vacation Leave
adopted: Mar-1976
last revised: Feb-2010
Full-time employees classified as exempt, twelve (12)-month administrative, professional/technical and executive staff will receive twenty (20) working days of vacation per year. Employees in these classifications may accumulate up to sixty (60) days (480 hours). Exempt employees must use vacation time in 4-hour increments, except when taking intermittent FMLA leave or working under restrictions required by a health care provider.
Full-time employees classified as non-exempt, twelve (12)-month support staff will receive ten (10) working days paid vacation for the first year of service, adding one (1) day for each additional year of continuous service up to a maximum of twenty (20) working days. Full-time non-exempt support staff may accumulate a maximum of forty (40) days during the first ten (10) consecutive years of service. After ten (10) consecutive years of service, full-time Nonexempt administrative staff may accumulate up to sixty (60) days (480 hours).
Vacation leave account accumulations will be determined as of June 30 of each fiscal year.
If an employee has reached the maximum vacation days allowed for accumulation, up to one-half of the current year’s earned and unused vacation days may be automatically transferred into the accumulated sick leave account at fiscal year-end.
If an employee has not reached the maximum vacation days allowed for accumulation, an election may be made via written notification to the Director of Human Resources to transfer up to one-half of the current year’s earned and unused vacation days into the accumulated sick leave account at fiscal year-end rather than having these days added to the accumulated vacation leave account. Such written notification should be received prior to June 30 of the current fiscal year.
If an employee has not reached the maximum vacation days allowed for accumulation and no written notification is received as noted above, any earned and unused vacation days for the current fiscal year will, to the extent allowable, go into the accumulated vacation leave account. Any remaining earned and unused vacation days will automatically be added to the accumulated sick leave account to the extent it does not exceed one-half of the total days earned for the current fiscal year.
During an employee’s final year of service, an election may be made via written notification to the Director of Human Resources to transfer the entire accumulated vacation leave account into the accumulated sick leave account. Earned and unused vacation days for the final period of service will be accumulated according to the above guidelines prior to this final transfer occurring. Vacation time shall not be used to bridge to a later termination of employment date.
Without notification to the contrary, accumulated vacation will be paid to the employee at the time of termination or retirement.
Each employee must request approval for vacation from his or her immediate supervisor. The request should be prepared in time to allow supervisors to schedule normal and appropriate hours of College operation.
No vacation may be taken until after it is fully earned except that newly employed staff may be permitted to take up to one week of vacation prior to the time it is earned with the approval of the employee's supervisor, the Vice President of the unit, and the Vice President of Finance and Administration. If an employee is terminated prior to having earned the vacation, the vacation time will be deducted from the employee's final reimbursement.