(A) Vacation leave
(1) Accrual. Full-time librarians earn
vacation leave at the rate of 1.83 days a month, or a total of twenty-two
workdays per year, prorated for the nine month or ten month academic year.
Librarians appointed to a part-time position of one half time or more will earn
vacation leave on a prorated basis. Full-time librarians on a nine or ten month
academic year who are issued a supplemental summer contract are not required to
use vacation during the summer semester.
(2) Scheduling. Vacation leave shall be
available to librarians to the extent earned. Librarians shall schedule their
vacations after consultation with and approval by their supervisor. Whenever
possible, vacations shall be scheduled at the preference of the
librarians.
(3) Holidays. When an
official university holiday occurs while a librarian is on vacation leave, the
librarian shall receive holiday pay.
(4) Maximum accumulation. Vacation leave
accumulation may not exceed forty-four days at any time within a fiscal year.
On June thirtieth of each year, librarians may carry over a maximum of thirty
days, two hundred forty hours, of accumulated vacation leave to the next fiscal
year. The vice president for business administration and finance or designee
may grant exceptions to the vacation leave carryover limitation at their
discretion.
(5) Termination. Upon
termination of employment, librarians are entitled to pay for up to a maximum
of twenty-two days.
(6) Balance
tracking. The university shall continue to provide a statement of a librarian's
accumulated vacation.
(B) Sick leave
Sick leave with pay is a benefit available during absence due
to personal illness; injury; medical confinement or disability; medical, dental
or optical examinations; for the illness of or medical attention for a member
of the immediate family; to cover a period of quarantine required by exposure
to a contagious disease; or for the death of a member of the immediate family.
For the purpose of this policy immediate family includes mother, father,
sister, brother, spouse, daughter, son, mother-in-law, father-in-law,
sister-in-law, brother-in law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, grandparent,
grandchild, stepparent, stepchild, legal guardian, registered same sex domestic
partner, or other person who stands in place of a parent.
(1) Accrual. Sick leave will accumulate at
the rate of 1.25 days, ten hours, for each month of service, without limit,
including periods of vacation and sick and other paid leave. Sick leave
accumulation is pro-rated for nine and ten month academic year appointments.
Librarians on less than full-time status shall receive sick leave credits
proportionate to the percent of time or hours worked as compared to full-time
librarians.
(2) Notification and
certification. For planned absences consistent with this policy, a librarian
shall notify the appropriate supervisor and gain prior approval. For
unanticipated absences consistent with this policy, sick leave with pay shall
be granted provided the librarian has reported the absence to the supervisor
prior to the beginning of duty or as soon as practicable, except in case of an
emergency. Librarians failing to comply with sick leave notification procedures
or who abuse sick leave may be subject to discipline.
(3) Medical certification. The university
reserves the right to require medical certification in cases of planned or
unanticipated absence and prolonged or repeated absence. The university
ordinarily will not require such a certificate in the case of illness or injury
of less than three days duration. The university may also require medical
certification as evidence of the librarian's fitness to return to
work.
(4) Transfers/other public
service. If a librarian transfers from one department of the university to
another, from the university to another Ohio public agency, or from another
state of Ohio agency to Cleveland state university, accumulated sick leave
credits will transfer insofar as allowed by law. Proof of sick leave credits
shall be furnished in writing to the university by the former employer of the
librarian transferring credits from another state of Ohio employer.
(5) Holidays. When a holiday occurs during a
period of paid sick leave, the librarian receives regular holiday pay; the time
is not charged to sick leave.
(6)
Exhaustion of sick leave balance. If an absence is due to sickness and extends
beyond accumulated sick leave, the librarian may request vacation with the
supervisor's approval. Bargaining unit librarians may also be eligible for the
sick leave bank as provided for in the CSU/SEIU district 1199 agreement. Leave
without compensation may be requested in accordance with the provisions for
unpaid leaves.
(7) Disability. If
the disability due to sickness extends beyond three months, eligible librarians
may apply for disability benefits.
(8) Balance tracking. The university shall
continue to provide a statement of accumulated sick leave.
(9) Record keeping. The university shall
establish and maintain procedures for recording the use of sick
leave.
(10) Retirement. Upon
retirement librarians with ten or more years of service with the state of Ohio,
at least five years of which have been at Cleveland state university, shall be
compensated in an amount not to exceed one-fourth of the value of accrued but
unused sick leave credit based on the rate of compensation at the time of
retirement insofar as is allowed by law. The maximum payment shall be for two
hundred forty hours based on an eight-hour working day.