AFSCME Unit A Paid Leave Accruals

As a full-time employee in a position covered by the AFSCME Unit A CBA you will receive 4 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 covered by AFSCME are awarded personal days based on their date of hire.

Date of Hire  -  Personal Days

Jan. 1 - March 30  -  4 days

April 1 - June 30  -  3 days

July 1 - Sept. 30  -  2 days

Oct. 1 - Dec. 31  -  0 days

As a full-time employee in a position covered by the AFSCME 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.

Your vacation accruals will increase based on your years of full-time equivalent service (as follows). If your vacation balance goes above 64 days it will be converted into sick time. Upon leaving employment the balance of unused time is paid to you.

Length of Continuous Full-Time Creditable Service
     --  Vacation Leave Accrued

Less than 54 months (less than 4.5 years)
     -  5/6ths of a 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 (19.5 or more years)
     -  2.08 days per month (total of 25 days per year)

Full-time employees accrue 1.25 days of sick time per month for a total of 15 per year. Sick leave accrual is pro-rated based in part-time employment and time off payroll.

Sick leave can can be used to secure income while on approved absence:

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, or parent of either an employee or his/ her spouse, or a relative living in the immediate household of an employee, is ill the employee may utilize sick leave credits up to a maximum of sixty (60) days per fiscal year, except in cases of demonstrated medical emergency or life threatening/terminal illness the sixty (60) day maximum may be waived by the CEO or designee.
3. When through exposure to contagious disease, the presence of the employee at his/her work location would jeopardize the health of others; and
4. To keep appointments with health care professionals. In such instances, the normal requirement of advance notice will be at least five (5) working days. However, the parties recognize that an unforeseen complication may arise from a regularly scheduled appointment with such a health care professional.

Absent an employee requesting unpaid leave, an employee on approved leave due to illness who has no sick leave credits shall be paid personal time; if no personal leave credits are available then shall be paid vacation time; if no vacation leave credits are available then compensatory time will be paid. If no sick leave credits or other accumulated leave credits are available, the employee shall be unpaid .

Sick Leave Bank members accrue 2 fewer days of sick leave, and one additional personal day, per year.

Upon evidence, satisfactory to the CEO, 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, grandchild, stepparents, stepchild, brother/sister-in-law, stepbrother/sister, or step grandparent, 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 any of the days to the later date  within one (1) year. Such request shall be made at the time of notification to the CEO of the death of one of the above-named relatives and shall not be unreasonably denied.