Annual leave with pay is earned by regular, eligible employees for the purpose of freeing them from their regular duties to spend time in rest and recreation or to attend to personal matters. Such leave should be programmed to insure that leave is taken rather than carried forward from year to year. New employees who have satisfactorily completed their probationary period will be entitled to use their accumulation of annual leave at the end of the probationary period.
Institutional operations govern annual leave periods.
Consideration is given first to the convenience of the administration, departmental needs, then the employee's departmental seniority and finally to the employee's preference. 3.2 Annual leave for regular part-time classified employees and the nonclassified employees identified above in 3 earned on prorated basis. Presidents, executive deans, provost, vice presidents, and other full-time employees of the institution holding offices that the President has excluded from the classification system by designation, are entitled to 24 working days annual leave each year to be taken at the convenience of the administration. For any of these employees who are less than full-time, the annual leave will be prorated. Annual leave will be prorated for those who are less than full-time.