Vacations
Article XII.L

Full-time twelve-month employee members of the bargaining unit are granted earned vacation days at their regular rate of pay after an initial four months of service, amounting to twenty-two working days per year. Vacation days do not accumulate when the bargaining-unit member is in an unpaid status of any kind. Vacation days earned, but not used, may be accumulated up to twenty-three days. However, bargaining-unit members whose salaries are derived from funds other than the general fund must use all vacation time prior to shifting to the general fund or prior to shifting to another subsidy source or the vacation accrual will be reduced to zero.

Vacation days must be scheduled in advance with the appropriate chair or dean/director/vice-president and shall be approved in accordance with the operational needs of the unit. Vacation days shall be requested in writing and accompanied by a completed copy of the University's official Time/Exception Report. The Time/Exception Report shall be processed by the administrator with the payroll covering the vacation period. If the Time/Exception Report is not filed by the administrator as herein provided, the bargaining-unit member may file a grievance requesting that the Time/Exception Report be filed and his/her vacation bank be debited the vacation days reported on the Time/Exception Report. 

Upon termination of employment (other than retirement) a member of the bargaining unit holding tenure or employment security status will be paid for unused vacation days up to a maximum of twenty-three days. A non tenured bargaining-unit member will be paid for the unused vacation days up to a maximum of twenty-three days or for the remaining days in his/her term appointment, whichever is less. Before transfer from a twelve-month to a nine-month appointment, a bargaining-unit member shall utilize the vacation days in his/her vacation bank prior to the transfer date. Upon special circumstances the President or his/her designee may authorize payment for vacation days that would otherwise be lost. 

In the event of the death of a member of the bargaining unit, his/her estate shall be entitled to payment for all accumulated vacation days.

Vacation Buy-Out
Letter of Agreement

The Letter of Agreement between the AAUP-AFT and the University dated 8/19/02 (page 164 of the contract) provides that:

Bargaining-unit members who have been denied vacation time by the University and who have reached at least 90% of their maximum accrual of vacation time may be allowed to take up to two weeks of pay (without fringe benefits) in lieu of vacation time off once a year.

The bargaining-unit member must request payment in lieu of vacation time off, and the request must be approved by the dean/director or his/her designee. All paid time will be subtracted from a bargaining-unit member’s vacation accrual bank. The unit in which the vacation time is accrued is responsible for funding this buy-out. A unit cannot deny vacation and also deny buy-out. A bargaining-unit member may opt to have a portion of this buy- out payment made directly to his/her retirement program as a pre-tax contribution as per existing University guidelines.

Vacation for “Fractional Time” Employees
Article XIV

All twelve-month employees who work fifty-percent time or more accrue vacation time as well. Article XIV states in part:

“Twelve-month fractional-time bargaining-unit members shall accrue vacation days in proportion to the fraction of time worked.”

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