NEPBA Paid Leave Accruals

UMass Amherst staff members in positions covered by the university's collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the New England Police Benevolent Association (NEPBA) are eligible for the following types of paid time.

The most common types of paid leave are outlined below. Please reference the CBA for more information and additional detail.

As a full-time employee in a position covered by the NEPBA 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. 1 - March 31             6
          April 1 - June 30              4
          July 1 - Sept. 30               2
          Oct 1  - Dec. 31                0

Full-time employees in a position covered by the NEPBA CBA 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 45 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)

Full-time employees in a position covered by the IBPO 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 they are incapacitated by personal illness or injury.
  2. When the spouse or domestic partner, child, or parent of either employee or their spouse or a relative living in the immediate household of an employee, is seriously ill, the employee may utilize sick leave  credits up to a maximum often (10) days per calendar year
  3. When, through exposure to contagious disease, the presence of the employee at his/her work location would jeopardize the health of others.
  4. To keep appointments with health care professionals. The employee will make every effort to provide at least five (5) working days notice of such appointment.

NEPBA employees can apply to "cash in" a portion of unused sick time during June any year by submitting their request in writing to Human Resources.

Upon evidence satisfactory to the appointing authority of the death of a spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, grandparent, or grandchild of an employee, or parent of spouse, or person living in the household, an employee shall be entitled to leave without loss of pay for a maximum of four (4) 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 two (2) consecutive working days shall be available for use by an employee.