Except as otherwise herein provided, only full time classified employees shall be eligible for vacation.  For the purpose of determining vacation eligibility, a full time classified employee shall be an employee who regularly works at least forty (40) hours per week for fifty-two (52) weeks each year.

Vacations - GCRH-R

Revised by the Board: 07/10/2006, 05/14/2018

Each full time employee who is entitled to vacation shall receive twenty-five (25) days per year or 2.08 days for each month of employment of paid vacation.  An employee shall only be eligible to use vacation which has been earned as a result of his employment.  Vacation days many not be accumulated from year to year and vacation earned in any year of employment shall be used within two (2) months after the end of the year of employment and if not so used, shall be lost.

The dates for taking vacation leave shall be scheduled in consultation with the employee’s supervisor or the Superintendent of Schools.

An employee entitled to a paid holiday, which occurs during the time of the employee’s authorized vacation leave will not be counted as a day of vacation.

Employees may use vacation leave in units of not less than two (2) hours.

Upon termination, an employee shall be compensated for all earned but unused vacation leave.

Full time employees for at least nine (9) months of each year (employees who do not work during the months of June, July and August) shall be entitled to the same vacation rights as full time employees as above set forth except that such employees shall receive earned vacation for only the months in which they work each year or three-fourths (3/4) of twenty-five (25) days per year vacation accrued at the rate of 2.08 days per month of work and such vacation may only be taken when school is no in session.

The amount of compensation an employee shall receive for vacation pay shall be equal to the wages he/she would have earned for the number of hours he/she would have been scheduled to work during his/her vacation time.

All vacation earned by any classified employee by June 30th in any year shall be taken and used by the employee by August 31 of the same year and any vacation not so taken or used shall be lost and shall not accumulate.