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| Leave - Paid and Unpaid |
The State provides paid and unpaid leave to its employees. Paid leave includes holidays, annual leave (vacation), sick leave, personal leave, and jury duty. Examples of unpaid leave include family, medical, military, and off-payroll.
Annual leave is provided to give employees an opportunity for periodic, scheduled rest and relaxation. Annual leave must be requested and approved by your supervisor in advance. As a new state employee, you will be able to accrue and use annual leave after the first six months of employment.
Personnel Policy 14.0
Sick leave is provided for classified employees so that you may be absent from work with pay for personal or family illness or injury or medical appointments. Upon appointment to the classified service, employees are credited with a bank of forty-eight (48) hours of sick leave that employees may use during the first six (6) months of service.
Notify your supervisor as soon as possible prior to the start of the workday when you know you will be not coming in to work.Personnel Policy 14.1
Personal leave can be accrued by non-management employees, who are not in original probation, at the rate of ten hours of personal leave for not using more than eight hours of sick leave per quarter. Supervisory bargaining unit employees are granted a lump-sum of personal leave at the beginning of the fiscal year. Personal leave is covered under the following policy: Personnel Policy 14.3
Military leave without pay is granted to state employees serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. This leave is in effect for the full duration of active duty. Senority status and benefits, which would have normally accrued during the leave period are retained by the employee. Personnel Policy 14.7
State employees are granted time off with pay for eleven legal holidays and one floating holiday. Subject to the operating needs of your department or agency, you may be granted the day after Thanksgiving off with pay.
Personnel Policy 14.8
Off Payroll and Leave of Absence situations may apply under certain circumstances. Specifically, you may either have exhausted your leave or the circumstances require a different type of leave request such as medical or military.
Additional information about leave policies can be found under
Personnel Policy 14.9
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