An employee whose standard workweek is twenty (20) hours or more shall be eligible for an annual vacation with pay after twelve (12) months of continuous service. However, eligible employees may, with the approval of the department head, take one (1) week of accrued vacation after six (6) months of service, provided it is understood that payment for vacation so taken shall be deducted from the employee’s pay if employment terminates before the completion of twelve (12) months of employment. An employee who is engaged on a temporary basis or who is hired to work irregular hours without a fixed standard workweek, shall not be eligible for a vacation with pay regardless of the number of hours s/he actually works per week.
The length of vacation pay for an eligible employee hired in the bargaining unit shall be as follows:
"Years of Service" is defined as the employee's total period of continuous employment at the University. "Workweek" and "workday" are defined as the number of hours in the employee's standard workweek and workday.
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11.2
An employee shall, upon completion of eight (8) years of service, have an additional standard workweek added to his/her vacation account and his/her vacation shall accrue thereafter at the rate of four (4) standard workweeks per year through the twentieth year of continuous service. Upon completion of twenty (20) years of service, an additional standard workweek shall be added to an employee's vacation account and his/her vacation shall accrue thereafter at the rate of five (5) standard workweeks per year.
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11.3
Vacation time shall be accrued monthly at the rate of one-twelfth (1/12th) of the total annual hours of vacation due the employee for each completed month of employment, but no vacation shall accrue for a calendar month during which the employee is in out-of-pay status, on paid sick leave or leave of absence for more than one-half (1/2) of his/her standard working hours for that month. Vacation accrual is limited to one and one-half (1 1/2) times the annual amount and ceases whenever that limit is reached.
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11.4
Authorized absences caused by illness or injury, and approved leaves of absence shall not be interpreted as an interruption of continuous service for the purpose of computing the employee's years of service.
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11.5
Insofar as may be consistent with the needs of the University, vacations shall be granted at the time of year selected by the employee, provided, however, that in scheduling vacation to fit the needs of both the employees and the University, no employee shall be deprived of his/her accrued annual vacation except as provided in Sections 6 and 9 of this Article XI.
Eligible employees may use accrued vacation hours to the extent necessary to supplement Worker's Compensation benefit payments. The employee is required to notify the departmental office of his/her desire to utilize vacation in this manner.
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11.6
The University may, to meet emergencies, request an employee to forego all or any part of his/her annual vacation, but in all such cases the University shall pay the employee the vacation allowance to which s/he is entitled in addition to the standard compensation earned by him/her by working during said vacation period. The University shall not request an employee to forego all or any part of his/her vacation for two (2) successive years.
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11.7
When an authorized University Holiday falls within an eligible employee's vacation period, his/her vacation shall be extended by the number of hours of paid holiday allowance to which the employee is entitled for that holiday, to compensate therefor.
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11.8
Compensation during paid vacations shall be at the employee's basic straight-time hourly rate in effect at the time the vacation is taken.
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11.9
Eligible employees who terminate employment, or are laid off, and who have completed twelve (l2) months of continuous service with the University, shall be paid for accrued vacation due up to the effective date of such termination or lay-off, except when the employee is discharged for misappropriation of or damage to University property. An employee who resigns giving less than two (2) weeks notice shall forfeit one (1) week of accrued vacation.
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