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SC Code § 8-11-610 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-610. Manner in which annual leave is computed.

 Any permanent full-time state employee is entitled to annual leave with pay, which is computed as follows:  For the first ten years of state service, he shall earn one and one-fourth working days' leave for each month of full-time employment a year. After ten years he shall earn a bonus of one and one-fourth working days' annual leave for each year of continuous service; however, the combined regular and bonus earnings shall not exceed thirty days in any one year. No employee is required to use all of his annual leave in any one year. Any unused annual leave may be accumulated, not to exceed forty-five days. Any employee of a department which allowed an accumulation in excess of forty-five days, who, as of June 2, 1972, had accumulated annual leave in excess of forty-five days may carry over and retain the excess leave which is the maximum amount the employee may carry over into future years. If the employee subsequently reduces the amount of the leave carried over, the reduced amount, if in excess of forty-five days, is the employee's maximum carry-over into future years. If the employee further reduces the amount of the leave carried over to forty-five days or less, forty-five days is the maximum amount of unused annual leave the employee may accumulate. It is at the discretion of the department heads to determine the maximum number of consecutive days any employee may have in any one period of leave. The total number of days of annual leave used in any one calendar year may not exceed thirty days.  Provided, further, that instructional personnel at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind whose positions are unclassified shall be entitled to receive annual leave in the same manner as state employees and to utilize annual leave only as specified in the annual contract. The annual contract shall enable such instructional personnel to utilize up to but no more than nine days annual leave per year over and above scheduled vacations, but no more than one day per month of annual leave without the supervisor's permission except in cases of illness or maternity leave when all available sick leave has been taken. Such employees shall be entitled to accumulate up to the maximum accumulation allowed state employees. These provisions shall not obligate the school to provide monetary compensation for unutilized days accumulated beyond the maximum allowed state employees.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-91.9; 1962 (52) 1691; 1972 (57) 2525; 1974 (58) 2172; 1982 Act No. 405, Section 3; 1985 Act No. 201, Part II, Section 78.
SC Code § 8-11-630 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-630. Employment of additional employees to replace those on leave and those terminated.

 No department head shall hire additional employees to replace employees on annual leave, but vacancies may be filled immediately for persons whose services have been terminated.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-91.11; 1962 (52) 1691; 1972 (57) 2525; 1974 (58) 2172.
SC Code § 8-11-640 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-640. Credit for prior State service; transfer from one agency to another.

 All employees of the State as of June 2, 1972, shall receive full credit for employment prior to such date. Following the date of June 2, 1972, all employees who are rehired following a break in service shall be given credit for prior state service for purposes of computing bonus earnings. In the event an employee transfers from one state agency to another, his annual leave balance shall also be transferred.  Any permanent employee of a state agency or department must be given full state service credit for prior service as a certified employee of a school district of this State for purposes of computing bonus earnings and no credit under this paragraph may be given for any out-of-state teaching service or other service with an out-of-state school district.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-91.12; 1962 (52) 1691; 1972 (57) 2525; 1974 (58) 2172; 1976 Act No. 621 Section 2; 1994 Act No. 523, Section 1, eff September 23, 1994; 1996 Act No. 458, Part II, Section 98, eff June 19, 1996.
SC Code § 8-11-650 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-650. Workweek upon which leave is based.

 Leave, as authorized by this article, shall be based upon a five-day workweek except where services are maintained seven days a week; provided, however, that no agency shall schedule a workweek of less than thirty-seven and one-half hours. The Department of Administration, through the State Personnel Division, may establish, by appropriate regulations, procedures for the equitable calculation of leave for those employees who work a different number of days, including permanent part-time employees.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-91.13; 1972 (57) 2525; 1974 (58) 2172.
SC Code § 8-11-660 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-660. Situation in which leave may not be credited.

 Employees shall not be credited with leave earnings for any month in which they are not in pay status for one half or more of the workdays of the month.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-91.14; 1972 (57) 2525; 1974 (58) 2172.
SC Code § 8-11-670 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-670. Additional leave may be granted in case of emergency or extreme hardship.

 Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, including the provisions of this article, the department or agency head may allow an employee, under emergency or extreme hardship conditions, who has used all accumulated sick leave and thirty days of annual leave to use under such emergency or hardship conditions any remaining annual leave which he has accumulated, subject to review by the Department of Administration upon appeal by the employee.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-91.15; 1974 (58) 2172.
SC Code § 8-11-680 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-680. Application of article.

 The provisions of this article shall apply to all State agencies, departments and institutions and shall be administered by each such agency, department and institution pursuant to regulations adopted by the Department of Administration. The article, however, shall not apply to teaching personnel and officials of academic rank at State-supported institutions of higher learning. The personnel records of all agencies, departments and institutions coming under the provisions of this article shall be subject to audit by the State Personnel Division.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-91.8; 1972 (57) 2525; 1974 (58) 2172.
SC Code § 8-11-700 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-700. Definitions.

 As used in this article:  (1) "Employing agency" means the agency in which the leave recipient is employed.  (2) "Leave donor" means an employee of an employing agency whose voluntary written request for transfer of annual or sick leave to the pool leave account of his employing agency is granted.  (3) "Leave recipient" means an employee of an employing agency who has a personal emergency and is selected to receive annual or sick leave from the pool leave account of his employing agency.  (4) "Personal emergency" means a catastrophic and debilitating medical situations, severely complicated disabilities, severe accident cases, family medical emergencies or other hardship situations that are likely to require an employee's absence from duty for a prolonged period of time and to result in a substantial loss of income to the employee because of the unavailability of paid leave.  (5) "Division" means the Human Resource Management Division of the Department of Administration.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 524, Section 2, eff May 18, 1988; 1995 Act No. 145, Part II, Section 64A, eff June 29, 1995.
SC Code § 8-11-710 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-710. Request for leave from pool leave account.

 (A) Employees of a state agency may request leave from the pool leave account established in this article of his agency for a personal emergency in the manner and under the conditions authorized by this article.  (B) This leave request must be submitted to the employing agency and must be accompanied by the following information concerning the employee:  (1) the name, employing agency, position title, and classification of the employee; and  (2) a brief description of the nature, severity, and anticipated duration of the medical, family, or other hardship situation affecting the employee.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 524, Section 2, eff May 18, 1988.
SC Code § 8-11-720 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-720. Selection of leave recipients.

 In conformity with guidelines established by the Department of Administration, the director of the employing agency may select leave recipients within the agency for participation in the leave-transfer program from among the potential leave recipients of the agency requesting leave under Section 8-11-710. The selections of the director of the employing agency are final, and there is no administrative or judicial appeal of the selections. Unless the personal emergency involves a medical condition affecting the leave recipient, the employing agency may consider the likely impact on morale and efficiency within the agency in considering a leave recipient's request to use transferred leave.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 524, Section 2, eff May 18, 1988; 1990 Act No. 339, Section 1, eff February 27, 1990; 1995 Act No. 145, Part II, Section 64B, eff June 29, 1995.
SC Code § 8-11-730 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-730. Transfer from annual or sick leave account to pool account.

 (A) An employee of an employing agency may request voluntarily, in writing, that a specified number of hours of his accrued annual or sick leave or both be transferred from his annual or sick leave account to a pool account the agency establishes to distribute leave to leave recipients employed by the agency pursuant to this article, except that an employee with less than fifteen days in his sick leave account may not transfer any sick leave to the pool account, and an employee with more than fifteen days in his sick leave account may transfer sick leave to the pool account if he retains a minimum of fifteen days in his own sick leave account. An employee may donate no more than one-half of the annual or sick leave he earns within a calendar year to the appropriate pool leave account for that calendar year. Once leave of an employee has been transferred to the pool account, it may not be restored or returned to the leave donor.  (B) Under guidelines established by the Department of Administration, the employing agency may transfer all or any portion of the annual leave in the pool account to the annual leave account of the leave recipient, and all or any portion of the sick leave in the pool account to the sick leave account of the leave recipient.  (C) Annual or sick leave transferred under this section may be substituted retroactively for periods of leave without pay or used to liquidate an indebtedness for advanced annual or sick leave granted.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 524, Section 2, eff May 18, 1988; 1990 Act No. 339, Section 2, eff February 27, 1990; 1995 Act No. 145, Part II, Section 64C, eff June 29, 1995.
SC Code § 8-11-740 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-740. Use of leave from pool account; unused portion of pool account upon termination of leave recipient's employment.

 (A) Upon approval by the director of the employing agency, a leave recipient may use annual or sick leave from the pool account established under Section 8-11-730 in the same manner and for the same purposes as if he had accrued the leave in the manner provided by law. Leave that accrues to the account of the leave recipient must be used before any transferred leave from the pool account.  (B) Transferred annual or sick leave from the pool account remaining to the credit of a leave recipient when the leave recipient's employment terminates must not be transferred to another employee, included in a lump-sum payment for accrued leave, or included in the recipient's total service for retirement computation purposes.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 524, Section 2, eff May 18, 1988; 1995 Act No. 145, Part II, Section 64D, eff June 29, 1995.
SC Code § 8-11-750 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-750. Termination of personal emergency.

 (A) The personal emergency affecting a leave recipient terminates when the employing agency determines that the personal emergency no longer exists or the leave recipient's employment by the employing agency terminates.  (B) The employing agency shall monitor continuously the status of the personal emergency affecting the leave recipient and establish procedures to ensure that the leave recipient is not permitted to receive or use transferred annual or sick leave from the pool account after the personal emergency ceases to exist.  (C) When the personal emergency affecting a leave recipient terminates, the employing agency may not grant any further requests for transfer of annual or sick leave from the pool account to the leave accounts of the leave recipient.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 524, Section 2, eff May 18, 1988.
SC Code § 8-11-760 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-760. Leave remaining after termination of personal emergency to be restored to pool account.

 Under guidelines established by the Department of Administration, any transferred annual or sick leave remaining to the credit of a leave recipient when the personal emergency affecting the leave recipient terminates must be restored to the pool account.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 524, Section 2, eff May 18, 1988; 1995 Act No. 145, Part II, Section 64E, eff June 29, 1995.
SC Code § 8-11-770 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-770. Employing agencies to maintain records and report pertinent information to division.

 The division shall require employing agencies to maintain records and report pertinent information to the division concerning the administration of the leave-transfer program for the purpose of evaluating the desirability, feasibility, and cost of the transfer program.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 524, Section 2, eff May 18, 1988.
SC Code § 8-11-910 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-910. Legislative intent.

 It is the intent of the General Assembly that state employees receive any pay increase appropriated in a consistent and uniform manner.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 13, eff June 13, 1990 (became law without the Governor's signature).
SC Code § 8-11-920 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-920. Definitions.

 For purposes of this article:  (1) "Base pay increase" means an increase applicable to all permanent state employees who qualify.  (2) "Board" means the Department of Administration.  (3) "Performance increase" means a pay increase applicable to permanent state employees based upon appraisal ratings of.  (a) below performance requirements;  (b) meets performance requirements;  (c) exceeds performance requirements; and  (d) substantially exceeds performance requirements.  (4) "Bonus" pay means a one-time payment for exceptional service and may be paid to employees who have performance ratings of "exceeds" or "substantially exceeds". Employees who have performance ratings of 'meets performance requirements' may be given the bonus pay upon approval of a special request by the agency head. This special request may not be used for agency-wide distribution of bonus pay. This payment is not a part of the employee's base salary and is not earnable compensation for purposes of employer or employee contributions to the respective retirement systems.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 13, eff June 13, 1990 (became law without the Governor's signature).
SC Code § 8-11-930 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-930. Competitiveness report; determination of base pay increases; adjustment of minimum and maximum in salary grades.

 The board and the General Assembly shall give first consideration to keeping the pay program for state employees competitive with the prevailing salaries, wages, and benefits in the private sector. To accomplish this, the board's Division of Human Resource Management shall submit an analysis of prevailing state and private sector salaries, wages, and benefits to the board, the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, and the Senate Finance Committee. This report must be completed every other year with the first report submitted no later than July 31, 1991. In determining the percentage of increase to be applied as a base pay increase, the board and the General Assembly and its committees shall consider the relative market value of each job classification. The minimum and maximum salary of each grade may be adjusted by law for the applicable year.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 13, eff June 13, 1990 (became law without the Governor's signature).
SC Code § 8-11-940 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-940. Performance increases.

 (A) Performance increases must be based upon performance appraisals containing the following categories:  (1) below performance requirements - no increase;  (2) meets performance requirements - two percent increase;  (3) exceeds performance requirements - three percent increase;  (4) substantially exceeds performance requirements - four percent increase.  The dollar amount of each performance increase must be added to the employee's base pay until the pay level of the employee has reached the maximum of his grade or executive compensation level. After the employee has reached maximum pay in his grade or executive compensation level, he may continue to receive performance pay but it must not be added to the base pay.  (B) The estimated cost of these performance increases, based upon predetermined norms, is two and one-half percent of the payroll of each agency. If the General Assembly provides more or less than two and one-half percent for performance increases, the percentage of increase of each category of performance must be adjusted accordingly.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 13, eff June 13, 1990 (became law without the Governor's signature).
SC Code § 8-11-945 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-945. Increases applicable to certain health care providers.

 For the purposes of this article, local health care providers of the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Division of Mental Retardation, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and the South Carolina Department on Aging are eligible for the base pay increase and performance pay increase as prescribed.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 13, eff June 13, 1990 (became law without the Governor's signature); 1993 Act No 181, Section 69, eff July 1, 1993.  Code Commissioner's Note  2011 Act No. 47, Section 14(B), provided for the substitution of "intellectual disability" for "mental retardation" in the 1976 Code of Laws. At the Code Commissioner's discretion, the substitution was not made for the formal reference to the "Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Division of Mental Retardation" in this section.  At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references to "Department on Aging" and "department" were substituted for "Division on Aging" and "division" to comply with amendments made by 2018 Act No. 261.
SC Code § 8-11-950 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-950. Bonus payments.

 Funding for bonus payments when provided are given to reward exceptional service. Bonus payments must be given in accord with rules established by the board. The board and the General Assembly shall state the amount provided for bonus payment in terms of a percentage of agency payrolls and in dollar figures.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 13, eff June 13, 1990 (became law without the Governor's signature).
SC Code § 8-11-960 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-960. Increases totalling more than agency maximum; audits.

 After the General Assembly appropriates amounts for base pay increases, performance pay, and bonus payments, the board shall determine the maximum amount available to each agency and the rules which apply if the merit increases proposed by the agency do not fit the norm.  The board's Division of Human Resource Management shall perform sample or detailed audits, or both, as necessary, to insure agency compliance with the General Assembly's intent for a fair and equitable distribution of performance pay and bonus pay. The Director of Human Resource Management shall submit to the board and the General Assembly an analysis of the audits, together with the analysis of prevailing state and private sector salaries, wages, and benefits required pursuant to Section 8-11-930.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 13, eff June 13, 1990 (became law without the Governor's signature).
SC Code § 8-12-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Interchange Of Government Employees Between And Among Federal, State And Local Governments|Section 8-12-10. Definitions.

 For the purposes of this chapter:  (a) "Sending agency" means any department or agency of the federal government or a state or local government which sends any employee thereof to another government agency under the provisions of this chapter.  (b) "Receiving agency" means any department or agency of the federal government or a state or local government which receives an employee of another government under the provisions of this chapter.  (c) "Agency or department" of federal, state or local government means any agency, department, board, commission, committee or institution of higher learning thereof.  HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 480 Section 2.