PSU/MTA Unit B Paid Leave Accruals

As a full-time employee in a position covered by the PSU/MTA Unit A CBA you receive 6 paid personal leave days each January for use during that calendar year. Part time employees and employees who are hired after March 31st receive a pro- rated amount during the first calendar year of employment. Your personal time must be used by the end of the calendar year or it will be forfeited. In the first year of employment those newly hired into a position  are awarded personal days based on their date of hire:

        Start Date               Personal Time
                                               (days)
          Jan. - Feb.                        5
          March. - April                  4
          May - June                       3
          July - Aug.                        2
          Sept. - Oct.                        1
          Nov. - Dec.                        0

As a full-time employee in a position covered by the PSU/MTA Unit A CBA you accrue 3.07 hours of vacation time each pay period (2 weeks) for a total of 10 days per year. This accrual is pro-rated based on both your position’s full-time equivalency and amount of time paid.

Vacation accruals increase based on years of full-time equivalent service (as below). Any vacation accrued when you have hit the maximum 64 day-vacation maximum is converted into sick time. The balance of unused vacation time is paid after departure from employment. .

Length of Continuous full-time "Seniority"
     -  Vacation Leave Accrued

Less than 54 months (4.5 years)
     -  5/6 day per month (total of 10 days per year)

54 months but less than 114 months (4.5 - 9.5 years)
     -  1.25 days per month (total of 15 days per year)

114 months but less than 234 months (9.5 - 19.5 years)
     -  1.66 days per month (total of 20 days per year)

234 months or more (19.5+ years)
     -  2.08 days per month (total of 25 days per year)

As a full-time employee in a position covered by the PSU/MTA Unit A CBA you accrue 3.69 hours of sick time each payroll period (2 week) for a total of 12 days per year. Sick leave accruals are pro-rated based on your position’s full-time equivalency and amount of time paid.

Sick leave may be used in the following conditions:

1. When an employee cannot perform his/her duties because he/she is incapacitated by personal illness or injury.
2. When the spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, or sibling of either a bargaining unit member or his/her spouse or domestic partner, or the bargaining unit member's grandparent or grandchild, or a relative living in the immediate household of a bargaining unit member spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, sibling grandchild, or grandparent of either an employee or his/her spouse or domestic partner, or a relative living in the immediate household of an employee is ill, the employee may utilize sick leave credits to care for such person.
3. When through exposure to contagious disease, the presence of the employee at his/her work location would jeopardize the health of others and to keep appointments with health care professionals. In such
   instances, the normal requirement of advance notice will be at least five (5) working days.
4. When an employee cannot perform his/her duties because he/she is incapacitated by personal illness or injury.

Upon evidence, satisfactory to the Chancellor, of the death of a spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, brother, sister, grandparent, or grandchild of an employee, or parent of spouse, or person living in the immediate household, an employee shall be entitled to leave, without loss of pay, for a maximum of five (5) consecutive working days. In the event of the death of an employee's son-in-law or daughter-in-law or of the spouse's or domestic partner's brother, sister, grandparent or grandchild, a maximum of three (3) consecutive working days shall be available for use by an employee. In the event of the death of an employee's aunt/uncle, an employee shall be entitled to one (1) day use of leave.

In the event that the internment of or memorial service for any of the above-named relatives is to occur at a time beyond the bereavement leave granted, the employee may request to defer one any of the days to the a later date within one (1) year. Such request shall be made at the time of notification to the Chancellor of the death of one of the above-named relatives, and shall not be unreasonably denied.