Leaves Available to Regular Faculty, A/P Staff, and Continuing Lecturers:

Leaves With Pay

During an approved paid leave, the employee pays his or her regular portion of group insurance premiums and the University continues its usual contribution.

Personal Business Days (Paid Leave)

Three personal business days are available each fiscal year to allow the employee to attend to financial or legal matters, critical family responsibilities, and other circumstances requiring the employee's presence during regular working hours.  Guidelines outlining the appropriate use of personal business days and the approval process for this leave are available online.

Vacation (Paid Leave)

Academic-year faculty and staff: Vacation is when classes are not in session.  The seven calendar days before the first day of classes each semester and the time between the end of classes and the final date for submitting grades are not vacation.

Fiscal-year faculty and fiscal-year staff classified as management or professional: These employees earn 22 days of vacation each year.  The maximum accrual is 44 days; the employee forfeits vacation beyond 44 days.

Fiscal-year staff classified as administrative and supervisory, professional assistant, operations assistant, or technical assistant: These employees earn 15 days of vacation during their first year of University employment and 22 days each year of continuous employment thereafter.  The maximum accrual is 44 days; the employee forfeits vacation beyond 44 days.

Terminal Vacation (Paid Leave)

The University will pay all accrued, but unused vacation to any employee who ends University employment after at least three months of continuous employment.  The termination can be for any reason, including resignation, firing, retirement, and death.

Sick Leave (Paid Leave)

Employees are eligible for the following maximum allowances of paid sick leave based on length of University employment:

• Employed less than one year: Regular pay for two weeks.
• Employed one year, but less than two years: Regular pay for one month and 75 percent pay for one additional month.
• Employed two years, but less than three years: Regular pay for two months and 75 percent pay for two additional months.
• Employed three years or more: Regular pay for three months and 75 percent pay for three additional months.

For purposes of sick leave, the employee's "regular pay" will be based on the period of continuous employment immediately before the date of illness. Sick leave payments stop when University employment ends due to resignation, retirement, or death.

Employees may use up to 10 days of their available sick leave per fiscal year for family illness.

Leaves Without Pay

During all approved personal leaves, the employee pays his or her regular portion of group insurance premiums and the University continues its usual contribution.

Personal Leave (Unpaid Leave)

All personal leaves are without pay.  Personal leave may be used for religious observance, research, education, newborn infant care, personal business, illness, disability, vacation, and other situations that cannot be addressed through a paid leave.  Personal leaves granted for medical reasons run concurrently with leave allowed under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

For information on the approval process for granting a personal leave, please contact your Human Resource Service team or refer to the Business Procedures Manual on the World Wide Web.