Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3359 - University of Akron › Chapter 3359-26 - General Staff Information, Policy and Procedures › Section 3359-26-04 - Absence from campus

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) All non-exempt staff employees are
			 required to request and have approved by their supervisor all absences from
			 campus for each instance involving vacation, sick leave, death of a member of
			 the immediate family, leave without pay, military leave, and/or court leave.
Each department is responsible for using the university of
				Akron approval process for such requests and approvals consistently with all
				departmental exempt and non-exempt staff employees. Provisions in collective
				bargaining agreements that refer to the request, use and approval of specific
				types of leave must be followed for employees covered by such an agreement. All
				approved absences must be reported on the employee's official time
				record.
Documentation may be required for certain types of
				absences.
(B) Holiday
			 schedule.
(1) The university of Akron
			 observes 
									eleven holidays annually:
Christmas day
Memorial day
Columbus day
New Year's day
Independence day
Presidents' day
Juneteenth
Thanksgiving day
Labor day
Veteran's day
Martin Luther King day
(2)
			 The dates on which these holidays are to be observed will be announced
			 annually.
(3) If a holiday falls on
			 Sunday, it will be observed on the following Monday; if a holiday falls on
			 Saturday, it will be observed on the preceding Friday.
(4) If a holiday occurs during a period of
			 active pay status - which includes approved sick leave, leave with pay, or
			 vacation - the employee will be paid for the holiday. In order to qualify for
			 holiday pay, an employee must be in an active pay status on regularly-scheduled
			 work days both prior and subsequent to the holiday.
(5) If it is essential that university
			 offices remain open on a day designated as a holiday (ex: Veterans day):
(a) Any full- or part-time classified or
			 unclassified non-exempt employee required to work on a designated holiday will
			 be entitled to one and one-half times the regular rate of pay - either in the
			 form of actual pay or compensatory time for the hours actually worked; such
			 overtime will be in addition to the employee's normal pay for the
			 holiday.
(b) Any full- or part-time
			 exempt staff employee required to work on a designated holiday will be entitled
			 to time off equal to the number of hours actually worked; such time off will be
			 in addition to the normal pay for the holiday and is to be taken at the
			 approval of the supervisor.
(6) If the university is officially closed at
			 five p.m. on the day prior to a board of trustees' approved holiday (ex:
			 Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving):
(a) For
			 employees whose normally scheduled work day falls all or in part after five
			 p.m., an effort may be made by the supervisor and employee to reschedule those
			 hours within the same work week. Otherwise, the employee will be expected to
			 work the normal schedule. If the hours are not worked or rescheduled, the
			 employee may utilize vacation leave in order to be paid.
(b) Part time employees are entitled to
			 holiday pay for that portion of any holiday for which the employee would
			 normally have been scheduled to work.