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Leave Plans

Annual Leave

Paid Annual leave is provided to employees in classified service. Employees will accrue annual leave on a bi-weekly basis and are eligible to use annual leave after the first six (6) months of employment.  Your eligibility to accrue annual leave and the rate at which you accrue is based on your position and bargaining unit. Employees off payroll for 20 hours or more will not accrue annual leave for that pay period.

Sick Leave

Paid Sick leave is provided for absence  related to personal illness, family illness, injury, or medical appointments. Upon appointment to classified service, employees are credited with a bank of forty-eight (48) hours of sick leave that may be used during the first six (6) months of service. Depending on your position and bargaining unit, your initial sick leave credits may vary. Your eligibility to accrue sick leave and the rate at which you accrue on a bi-weekly basis is based on your position and bargaining unit. Employees off payroll for 20 hours or more will not accrue sick leave for that pay period.

Personal Leave

Personal leave is provided to employees in classified service. Your eligibility to accrue personal leave and the rate at which you accrue is based on your position and bargaining unit:

  1. Non-management employees are eligible to earn ten (10) hours of personal leave per quarter. For more information please see the Personal Leave Incentive Page.
  2. Supervisory bargaining unit employees are granted a lump-sum of personal leave at the beginning of the fiscal year.

HR Advice

The HR Advice provides information on employees leave balances as of the  close of the last pay period.  Leave hours that are coded in the current pay period will not be reflected in your leave balance until the following HR Advice run. Employees can view their HR Advice through their employee self-service by navigating to:

  1. Self-Service -->Payroll and Compensation-->View HR Advice
  2. Self-service-->Time Reporting-->Report Time-->Timesheet (Once on the Timesheet screen, select the View HR Advice hyperlink on the bottom of the screen)

For More Information

Employees or applicants with questions about leave should contact their department's HR Administrator for more information.