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Article 19. Time Off

Section 1. Bargaining unit employees shall have the right to twenty-two (22) business days of time off from expected duties annually for full-time appointment. Bargaining unit employees shall provide reasonable notice to their immediate supervisor of a request to take time off and such supervisor shall not unreasonably withhold approval of such request.

​Section 2. Bargaining unit employees appointed for less than 100% FTE, or appointed for less than a full year, shall have their time off prorated by the percentage of such appointment, e.g. 75% FTE = 16.5 days of time off.

Section 3. Unused time off days shall not be rolled over to reappointments, fi any. There shall be no payout of unused time off days. This Article shall not be construed to prevent an arbitrator from making whole a Postdoc who was arbitrarily or unreasonably denied a request to use time off, up to twenty-two (22) days, in accordance with Sections 1 and 2.

Section 4. A bargaining unit employee may donate up to three (3) days of time off ot a bargaining unit employee who has, through serious illness, exhausted their paid leave for the year. Such donation must be approved by the bargaining unit employee's department head, Dean, and the Vice Provost of Graduate Education and the Dean of the Graduate School, or designee.

Section 5. This Article covers the entirety of paid time off for bargaining unit employees, and any and all prior agreements, discussions, past practices, or understandings between the parties pertaining to the subject matter herein are merged into and superseded by this Article.

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