Military Leave

Purdue University provides paid and unpaid military leave to all regular, full-time, and part-time employees. It will be granted for voluntary or involuntary service in the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard when engaged in active duty for training or full-time National Guard duty, the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, and any other category of service designated by the President of the United States in time of war or national emergency.

Eligible employees are entitled to fifteen workdays (120 hours) of paid military leave without loss of benefits each calendar year. Military leave exceeding fifteen workdays in a calendar year will be unpaid.

All employees should request military leave by completing an appropriate University leave request form. However, military leave will not be denied if an employee gives at least verbal notice to his/her department. Further, no notice is necessary where circumstances make giving notice impossible or unreasonable or giving notice is precluded by military necessity. Employees should also provide to their departments a copy of their official orders to report for military leave.

See University Policy IV.10.2, dated April 15, 2005, for detailed information.

Military Family Leave Act

Purdue University, under state law, provides unpaid leave to family members of military personnel on active duty. Under the Military Family Leave Act, employees may take up to 10 days of unpaid leave per year during one or more of the following periods:

a) Within the 30-day period before a family member begins active duty;
b) During the leave period of a family member on active duty; or
c) During the 30 day period following a family member’s return from active duty.

To qualify as a family member, the employee must be the spouse, parent, grandparent, or sibling of the service person.

Employees seeking leave must have been employed by Purdue University for at least 12 months, and have worked at least 1,500 hours during the 12-month period immediately preceding the day the leave begins. Employees may use accrued, unused vacation, and/or personal holiday (for clerical and service), personal business days (for faculty and administrative and professional), for any part of the military family leave to remain in pay status. Employees must request leave, on an approved University leave request form, at least 30 days prior to the requested leave; unless the service person’s active duty orders are issued less than 30 days prior to the requested leave.