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Approved by the:
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University Senate - March 3, 2011
Administration February 16, 2012*
Board of Regents - no action required
* After careful consideration of the senate resolution, I am pleased to approve this request and have asked Vice President for Human Resources Kathryn Brown to move forward on policy amendments for implementation effective July 1, 2012.
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Resolution
on the Personal Floating Holiday
The
University Senate recommends to the President that the University revise its
policy regarding the Twin Cities and Rochester campus’ academic
employees’ personal holiday so that the personal holiday may be used at
any time during the year.
COMMENT:
The Senate
Social Concerns Committee believes that the policy regarding personal holidays
is unnecessarily restrictive. The current policy allows all academic employees
on the Twin Cities and Rochester campuses to take a personal holiday only during
a finite period over winter break. The policy is at:
http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/benefits/leaves/personalholiday/index.html
and states:
A
personal holiday has been added for academic employees on the Twin Cities and
Rochester campuses to bring their total up to 11 holidays, consistent with other
employee groups and other campuses. The personal holiday for academic staff (on
the TC and Rochester campuses only) for FY 2010 must be taken between December
24, 2009 and January 18, 2010. If not used in that time period, it is lost. This
holiday cannot be banked or utilized outside of this window. The specific dates
of this window will change in future years consistent with the academic
calendar. Approval and tracking of this holiday is the responsibility of the
local unit.
This
personal holiday applies to those whose terms and conditions of employment are
covered by academic, graduate assistant, or professionals-in-training policies.
The term
academic employee applies to both nine and twelve-month faculty and professional
and administrative employees. If the employee is eligible for other paid
holidays, such as Thanksgiving, they would also be eligible for the floating
personal holiday.
Allowing
academic employees to utilize the personal holiday at any time during the year
would bring academic employees personal holiday use into line with Twin Cities
and Rochester civil service and bargaining unit employees who may already use
the personal holiday at anytime during the year. It would also provide them
with time off work to observe religious holidays that fall outside of the finite
period over winter break.