Vacation leave for full time employees working 40 hours per week and 12 months per year shall be earned and accumulated on a monthly basis in accordance with the following annual schedule. To be eligible for vacation, an employee must have 6 months of continuous service with the District.
Years of Service Vacation Leave
1 - 2 80 hours
3 - 10 96 hours
11 + 120 hours
A. Employees working less than forty (40) hours per week shall earn and accumulate such proportion of the above vacation leave as the hours they work bears to forty (40) hours per week.
B. Employees working ten (10) months per year shall be credited with one (1) year of service for vacation purposes; however, they shall earn and accumulate .833 of the vacation leave set forth above.
C. A classified employee absent because of illness or injury shall earn and accumulate vacation leave during that portion of the employee's absence covered by the employee's accumulated sick leave.
D. A classified employee must begin work on or before the first work day after the 10th calendar day of any month in order to earn vacation leave for that month. In order to accumulate vacation leave for their last month of service upon terminating employment with the District, such employee must have worked at least through the 20th calendar day of such month.
E. Employees shall submit requests for use of earned vacation time to their administrative supervisor. Requests shall be approved if the request is consistent with the work needs of the District and minimizes disruption of District operations.
F. The request of the employee and with the approval of the supervisor, the employee may carry over into the next fiscal year up to 160 hours’ vacation entitlement. There may be occasions when, for the convenience of the employee, and with the advance approval of the Superintendent, additional accrued vacation days may be carried over into the next fiscal year.
G. Any employee on scheduled vacation who becomes ill may have his/her status changed to sick leave with District approval and the presentation of a doctor's certificate verifying such illness.