Review the employee policies for paid time off including vacation, sick time, short-term disability, and other reasons for taking leave.
Vacation leave is available to regular staff who are scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week. Time is prorated based on hours, classification, and years of service.
Read the Full Staff Vacation PolicyChamplain College is a caring community and believes that income replacement for staff and faculty who are unable to work due to their own or an immediate family member’s illness is essential for maintaining our culture of caring. For this reason, regular full-time faculty and staff are provided with 10 days of Sick Leave per year. Part-time staff and faculty and staff will have a pro-rated number of sick days available based on their work schedule.
Short-term disability benefits are payable to regular full-time and part-time employees for physician and UNUM-approved absences due to their own non-work related injury or illness (including disability due to pregnancy) after 10 consecutive calendar days of absence due to the employee’s same injury or illness.
Read the Full Sick Leave and Short-Term Disability PolicyTwo personal days are granted each leave year (September 1 – August 31) to full-time faculty and staff. Part-time staff and faculty who are scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week receive one personal day per leave year, accrued each pay period with the accrual year running from September 1 – August 31.
In the event of a death of an immediate family member (spouse, civil union partner or same sex spouse, son or daughter [biological, adopted, foster or step child, legal ward, child of a civil union partner, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis who is under 18 years of age], or parent [biological parent of an employee or an individual standing in loco parentis], parent-in-law, parent of a civil union partner, sibling, sibling of spouse or civil union partner, grandparent, or grandchild), up to 3 days bereavement leave will be granted. However, under special circumstances (i.e., travel, funeral arrangements, personal reasons) up to five days may be granted upon consultation and approval of your manager.
The Family Medical Leave Act requires covered employers to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees for certain family and medical reasons. U.S. employees are eligible if they have worked at least one year and for 1,250 hours over the previous 12 months, and will be calculated on a rolling calendar year.
Any employee required to attend court for jury duty or is summoned as a witness will be paid their normal base pay for the day. If the employee will be compensated by the court, a statement from the court clerk showing the rate of pay for each day must be uploaded when entering the Jury Duty leave request in Oracle.
Employees called to jury duty or summoned as a witness will retain all rights and privileges as College employees while on such duty. An employee who voluntarily appears as a witness or appears in court on their own behalf must charge the absence against vacation or approved leave (to be cleared with the direct Supervisor or Division Dean) with or without pay.
To apply for Jury Duty Leave, a leave request must be completed in Oracle.
Any regular, full-time, employee may be granted an unpaid leave of absence from the College for any reason deemed acceptable at the sole discretion of the Vice President, Provost or Dean of the division or department in which the employee works. A prerequisite to requesting a unpaid leave of absence is one year of full-time employment. A regular, full-time, employee may, in certain circumstances, be granted a leave of absence for a period of one month to a maximum of twelve months. Requests must be submitted in writing to the appropriate supervisor and forwarded for final approval to the appropriate Vice President, Provost or Dean. An employee on an approved leave of absence may elect to continue Medical and Dental Insurance subject to COBRA provisions. College coverage of life insurance, STD and LTD will cease the last day the employee is actively at work. A prerequisite to requesting an unpaid leave of absence is one year of full-time employment.
This policy applies to all employees of Champlain College, Inc. who are voluntarily or involuntarily called to perform military service, including those activated as part of a Federal call up to assist in an emergency related natural disaster.
The policy is limited to individuals serving in the United States’ uniformed services (including the National Guard and Reserves of the military services) as well as Intermittent Disaster Response Appointees (IDRAs).
This military leave policy does not apply to State call-ups to assist in an emergency related to a natural disaster (please refer to Leave of Absence Policy in these cases).
This policy may not address all issues concerning military leave rights. Insofar as issues arise that are not addressed in this policy, the College will abide by USERRA and any controlling state law.
Absence without approved leave includes failure to report to work or failure to remain at work during appointed hours. Employees will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including discharge, for absences without approved leave.