Annual Leave - Employees who earn annual leave will be paid for all accumulated, unused annual leave when they leave APS service. Sick Leave - Employees with satisfactory performance records who qualify and retire under the VRS or the County retirement system will be paid fifty percent of the value of all accumulated, unused sick leave. Depending on the number of years of APS service, employees earn 14 to 28 days of annual leave each fiscal year. Employees are encouraged to request annual leave at such times as may be convenient and not in conflict with their responsibilities. Permission to take annual leave must be requested in advance and authorization must be given before annual leave can be taken.
Employees can carry no more than forty days of annual leave from one fiscal year to the next.
Up to fourteen days of excess annual leave will be credited to sick leave. These employees are advanced three days of personal leave at the beginning of the school year. Personal leave is provided to enable employees who do not earn annual leave to attend to personal and business needs that cannot be addressed at times other than their regular hours and days of work. Generally, personal leave cannot be taken on days immediately before or after a school holiday, a legal holiday, the winter vacation, the spring vacation or the summer vacation. Employees may carry a balance of no more than six personal days.