New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 22 - JUDICIARY › Subtitle A - JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter I - Standards and Administrative Policies › Subchapter A - Rules Of The Chief Judge › Part 24 - Time And Leave › Section 24.3 - Annual leave

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July
					 10, 2024
(a) An employee shall be entitled to
					 combined vacation, personal business and religious holiday leave of 20 workdays
					 annually and, unless otherwise provided in this Part, shall be entitled on his
					 or her anniversary date to one additional day for each completed year of
					 continuous service in the Unified Court System up to a maximum of 27 workdays
					 annually. Thereafter, such employee shall earn annual leave for completed
					 biweekly pay periods at a rate equal to 26 days for 26 such pay periods, and
					 also shall earn one additional day of annual leave on his or her anniversary
					 date.
(b) An employee
					 who has completed 25 years of service in the Unified Court System or the State
					 shall be entitled on his or her anniversary date to one additional annual leave
					 day each year.
(c) An
					 employee who has completed 30 years of service in the Unified Court System or
					 the State shall be entitled on his or her anniversary date to one additional
					 annual leave day each year, in addition to the one additional annual leave day
					 provided in subdivision (b) of this section.
(d) Employees who were officially
					 entitled prior to April 1, 1977 to receive additional annual leave days and
					 religious holiday leave days, and who have received such additional leave days
					 continuously thereafter, may continue to receive such leave, provided that such
					 leave is limited to a maximum of 30 annual leave days and three religious
					 holiday leave days per year. Religious holiday leave days shall be credited on
					 a calendar-year basis. Such days may be used only in the calendar year in which
					 they are credited and may not be carried over from one calendar year to the
					 next. Religious holiday leave days may be used only for recognized days of
					 religious observance for which the faith requires its members to make religious
					 observance.
(e)
					 Employees entering the service of the Unified Court System shall be entitled to
					 accrue annual leave from their initial date of hire. An employee shall not earn
					 annual leave credits for any biweekly pay period unless he or she is in
					 full-pay status for at least seven workdays during such biweekly pay
					 period.
(f) A
					 part-time, per diem or hourly paid employee eligible to earn annual leave
					 credits pursuant to this Part shall earn annual leave credits as provided
					 herein, but such employee's total pay when absent on such leave shall be the
					 amount which would have been due if the employee had worked his or her usual
					 number of hours or days during such period.
(g) The time at which annual leave may
					 be drawn by an employee shall be subject to the prior approval of the
					 administrative authority.
(h) Annual leave credits shall be used
					 in units of not less than 15 minutes.
(i) No accumulation of annual leave
					 credits in excess of 54 days may be carried over from one fiscal year to the
					 next. Any such accumulation in excess of 54 days at the end of a fiscal year
					 shall be converted into sick leave. The administrative authority may grant an
					 employee specific permission to exceed the 54-day maximum for a period of no
					 longer than one year where the needs of the court or agency require that the
					 employee postpone his or her vacation.
(j) A leave of absence without pay, or a
					 resignation followed by reemployment in the Unified Court System within one
					 year following such leave of absence or resignation, shall not constitute an
					 interruption of continuous service for the purposes of this Part; provided,
					 however, that leave without pay for more than six months or the period between
					 resignation and reemployment during which the employee is not in the service of
					 the Unified Court System, shall not be counted in determining eligibility for
					 additional annual leave credits under this Part.
(k) To the extent practicable,
					 annual leave credits shall be used prior to appointment, promotion,
					 reassignment or transfer to a different court or agency. The court or agency to
					 which an employee is appointed, promoted, reassigned or transferred shall
					 credit him with all of his accumulated annual leave credits not used prior to
					 such appointment, promotion, reassignment or transfer.
(l) In the event the
					 administrative authority determines that operations in a particular court or
					 courts will be recessed for at least four consecutive workdays, the
					 administrative authority may require employees during such recess to charge up
					 to four days' annual leave in each fiscal year.