




| New Year's Day | January 1 |
| Martin Luther King Day | 3rd Monday in January |
| Memorial Day | Last Monday in May |
| Independence Day | July 4 |
| Labor Day | 1st Monday in September |
| Thanksgiving Day | 4th Thursday in November |
| Christmas Eve Day | December 24 |
| Christmas Day | December 25 |
| New Year's Eve Day | December 31 |
If a holiday falls on a Sunday, University offices are closed the following Monday. If a holiday falls on a Saturday, you will receive floating legal holiday hours to be used within the calendar year. The amount of legal holiday that part-time employees receive is pro-rated. To be eligible to be paid for a legal holiday, you must be in pay status either on the last scheduled work day immediately before the holiday or on the first scheduled work day immediately following the holiday.
In addition to legal holidays, you will receive 4½ personal holidays per year that must be used within that calendar year (36 hours) or they are lost. If you are represented by WLEA, you will receive 3½ personal holidays (24 hours). (Members of the Crafts Union do not receive personal holidays.) Personal Holidays are pro-rated for part-time employees.
A summary of your
various leave balances is provided on each earnings statement.
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(General information is provided below. Represented Classified employees should refer to their contract for specific information regarding sick leave.)
You begin to earn sick leave immediately upon employment and there is no limit of how much can be accumulated. Classified employees accrue sick leave credit at the rate of .0625 hour for each hour in pay status, not to exceed five hours in any biweekly pay period. Sick leave cannot be used before it is accrued.
Sick leave can be used for personal illness, injury, disability, or maternity. It may also be used for:
If you are enrolled
in the State Group Health Insurance Program and retire on an immediate
annuity, retire and receive a lump sum benefit, or terminate employment
(at any age) with 20 years WRS creditable service but defer application
for retirement benefit, unused sick leave credits are converted to a cash
value and used to pay your health insurance premiums.
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Vacation is earned for all regular hours in pay status. For most employees, vacation is allocated based on the following schedule:
| During the 1st 5 years | 104 Hours |
| 5+ to 10 years | 144 Hours |
| 10+ to 15 years | 160 Hours |
| 15+ to 20 years | 184 Hours |
| 20+ to 25 years | 200 Hours |
| 25 years and thereafter | 216 Hours |
Vacation may be
used after six months of employment. You must have your vacation
requests approved by your supervisor in advance. Vacation should
be used during the calendar year in which it is earned unless bargaining
unit contracts specify otherwise.
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Occasionally, rush seasons, peak workload periods, and certain emergency situations may require overtime work in your department. All overtime work must be approved prior to the date it is worked.
Under federal law, most of our classified employees must receive overtime compensation. These employees are called "non-exempt" for overtime pay purposes and are eligible for pay or compensatory time off at the rate of time-and-one-half for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
Employees in executive,
administrative, and professional positions are generally "exempt"
from federal overtime provisions. There are extraordinary situations,
however, where exempt personnel can receive overtime compensation.
Some exempt positions are represented by a union, with its own contractual
provisions for overtime pay.
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If you work between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., you will be eligible to receive night differential compensation of 45¢ per hour, in addition to your normal pay rate for those hours.
Weekend differential of 60¢ per hour will be paid for all hours worked between 12:01 a.m. Saturday and 12:00 midnight Sunday. (Craft employees do not receive weekend differential.)
(NOTE: 2005-2006
rates are listed above and are subject to change.)
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