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UNDERSTAND

The personal holiday is a paid day off work that eligible monthly-paid professional staff employees receive each year in addition to the regularly scheduled state holidays.

The terms and conditions under which you receive a personal holiday are specified by the Professional Staff Program.

Eligibility

You receive and are eligible to use your personal holiday after you complete your initial four (4) months of employment. Effective January 1, 2010, professional staff employees with annual appointment periods of less than 12 months became eligible for the personal holiday. Before this date, professional staff employees with appointment periods of less than 12 months did not receive a personal holiday.

Using the Personal Holiday

• The personal holiday is paid at a rate equivalent to the FTE in effect at the time you use it (e.g. 100% FTE = 8 hrs., 75% FTE = 6 hrs., 50% FTE = 4 hrs.).
• You must take the personal holiday as a single day off work, except that you may donate a part of your personal holiday to another employee as shared leave, in which case you must use your remaining personal holiday at one time.
• If you do not use your personal holiday by the end of the calendar year, you lose it.
• If you move from one staff position to another within the University, or to a staff position at another state agency without a break in service, the unused personal holiday transfers with you.
• If you leave University employment, you will not be paid for an unused personal holiday.

ACT

Follow your department’s procedures for requesting and taking time off from work to request use of your personal holiday.

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