Up to three days each year can be converted to personal leave based on your sick leave balance each 1st of January. The severe weather policy was changed to reflect that if the conditions are so severe that classes are canceled, it is also too dangerous for employees to have to try to make it work. Some employees are designated as emergency-essential employees and will be expected to be at work. They are compensated at a different rate of pay during these hours. The Flextime Policy was adopted to allow employees to alter their work hours with supervisory permission, based upon outside influences such as home and family.
All employees are eligible to be nominated by their co-workers and supervisors.
Based upon these nominations, a committee has the difficult task of choosing one employee to be honored. We also helped to form a state-wide employee organization that meets with staff employees from eight other institutions around the state three times each year. This helps foster ideas that have been developed by others and adapt them to our own environment. These meetings are held on a rotating basis around the state to promote this interaction among employees. We meet with the Assistant Vice Provost for Human Resources, area Vice Presidents, the Provost, Board of Trustees, and the President to work on initiatives that affect you.