Vacations and Holidays
1.200 VACATIONS AND HOLIDAYS
1.210 General Information Regarding Vacations
It is the policy of
Annual vacation schedules are to be approved in advance by the appropriate manager and kept by the manager in that department. Workload of the department will always be a consideration when vacations are scheduled. Vacation days may accrue without any applicable maximum until December 31 of each calendar year. At that time the maximum carryover into the next vacation accrual year will be the maximum amount of hours the employee was eligible to accrue in the previous fiscal year. The employee must either use or lose vacation days that have been accrued beyond the maximum carryover.
1.211 Vacation
All new full-time employees or those who move from a part-time status to full-time status on or after January 1, 1996, will accrue ten (10) days vacation based on a full year of employment. (For vacation accrual purposes, the year begins with hire date.) After five full years of service, all full time, exempt employees who were hired on or after January 1, 1996, will receive fifteen (15) days vacation. After ten full years of service, full-time, exempt employees will accrue twenty (20) days vacation. Exempt level employees hired before January 1, 1996, will continue to accrue vacation under the policy in effect before January 1, 1996.
If an employee goes from a part-time status to a full-time status, that employee will begin accruing vacation as a full-time employee when she or he begins work as a full-time employee.
Employees hired prior to January 1, 1996, and who are considered full-time but who work for a period of less than twelve months will receive prorated paid vacation time calculated by the number of months they work and the above criteria of years of service.
Employees who work a part-time, twelve month schedule have their vacation allocation prorated as a percentage of the total vacation accrued by full-time employees.
Effective January 1, 2000, new employees who are hired full-time, or part-time, as ten month employees will not accrue vacation.
1.220 Holidays
All individuals classified as full-time employees will have thirteen (13) holidays during the calendar year which include: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving (two days), winter holidays (five days to be determined each year which will encompass Christmas Eve through the New Years Day holiday), and at least two floating holidays to be taken at any other time during the calendar year.
Any of these floating days is to be scheduled with the supervisor's approval.
New employees serving the initial 180 day probationary period will be paid for any holidays during which the College is officially closed. New employees hired between January 1 and June 30 will receive credit for one floating holiday. Those hired July 1 and thereafter will receive no floating holidays during the remainder of the calendar year.
Official holidays are to be taken when they occur and may not be taken at other times unless necessary to the operations of the department involved. For departments that must be operational during College defined official holidays, the department supervisor can require that the employee(s) take these days at another time during the year.
Regular part-time employees receive holiday pay on a pro-rata basis. Temporary employees are not eligible for paid holidays.
Employees who because of work schedules have a regular day off that coincides with a holiday shall have an additional day off with pay during one of their normally scheduled workdays.