Section 5-E1201. ANNUAL LEAVE

 

1201.1Annual leave is an authorized absence from a regularly scheduled tour of duty, and is intended for vacation periods and for general and emergency absences.

 

1201.2Annual leave shall be credited to all full-time employees in the Educational and Career Service, with the exception of ET-15 employees.

 

1201.3Annual leave shall not be credited when employment is for a period less than ninety (90) days.

 

1201.4When limited appointments extend beyond ninety (90) days, with no break in service, annual leave shall be granted retroactive to the date of initial appointment.

 

1201.5Annual leave shall be credited on the basis of the length of total creditable District government service, as follows:

 

(a)Employees with less than three (3) years of creditable service shall be credited one hundred four (104) hours or thirteen (13) days of annual leave per leave year; and

 

(b)Employees with three (3) or more years but less than fifteen (15) years of creditable service shall be credited one hundred sixty (160) hours or twenty (20) days of annual leave per year;

 

(c)Employees with fifteen (15) or more years of creditable service shall be credited two hundred eight (208) hours or twenty-six (26) days of annual leave per leave year.

 

1201.6Part-time employees with regular, pre-scheduled tours of duty shall be credited annual leave at the rate of one (1) hour for each twenty (20) work hours per pay period.

 

1201.7Part-time employees with a tour of duty less than twenty (20) hours per pay period shall not earn annual leave.

 

1201.8Circumstances warranting use of annual leave and procedures for crediting and authorizing use of annual leave shall be established by the Superintendent of Schools.

 

1201.9Unused annual leave shall be carried forward from year to year, with a maximum accumulation of two hundred forty (240) hours or thirty (30) days. Accumulation in excess of two hundred forty (240) hours or thirty (30) days shall be forfeited at the end of the leave year.

 

1201.10Procedures for and circumstances warranting the restoration of forfeited annual leave shall be established by the Superintendent.

 

1201.11Annual leave may be advanced in amounts equal to that normally credited during the balance of the current leave year, or to the duration of appointment, whichever is appropriate.

 

1201.12An employee with an annual leave balance to his or her credit who transfers to the ET-15 salary class with no break in service, may do either of the following:

 

(a)Elect a lump sum payment for the balance, payable at the time of employment; or

 

(b)Use the annual leave in increments of one-half (1/2) day or multiples of a half (1/2) day. Four (4) hours of annual leave shall equal one-half (1/2) day.

 

1201.13Accumulated annual leave shall be payable upon separation from the Board of Education.

 

1201.14Accumulated annual leave of employees resigning to accept employment with another District government agency will be transferred; provided, that no break in service occurs.

 

1201.15The terms of any negotiated agreement relating to annual leave shall supersede this section.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 27 DCR 4297, 4336-37 (October 3, 1980).