The University provides for continued earnings with designated holidays and in connection with approved vacation leave time. Other authorized leaves with continued full or partial earnings are under designated circumstances authorized by the University. When a holiday is observed during the Monday through Friday work week and a staff member is excused from work on the holiday, earnings are continued provided compensation for the scheduled work days immediately preceding and following the holiday period is qualified. For staff members on a Monday through Friday work week, Monday is observed as the holiday when a schedule holiday occurs on Sunday while Friday is recognized as the holiday when the scheduled holiday falls on Saturday. For all other staff members, the holiday shall be deemed to fall on the day on which the holiday occurs.
Sick leave is cumulative and accrues to an unlimited maximum.
While sick leave entitlement accrues during vacation, emergency leave and sick leave periods, such leave does not accrue during approved leaves of absence without pay. Sick leave may be paid during the academic year or the summer session to a professional-scientific staff member as a result of a medically related disability which occurs before a semester or a summer session commences to the extent that such leave credits are available, and provided a definite commitment of employment during that period has been consummated before the onset of the disability. Credit for Worker's Compensation benefits will then be used to purchase additional days of sick leave for the staff member and the total amount of sick leave credit so realized will be exhausted as required. In the event the University administration has reason to believe that a staff member is abusing the sick leave privilege or may not be physically fit to return to work, the administration may require a medical certificate or other appropriate certification. All leave time chargeable to sick leave benefit causes the otherwise qualified professional-scientific staff member to be ineligible to participate in the conversion option for the month in which such claim occurs.