FILE:  GBRK

 

VACATION LEAVE

 

 

All twelve (12) month full-time employees shall earn annual leave at the rate set by the St. John the Baptist School Board.  Employees exceeding their annual leave shall automatically be deducted at full pay.

 

Annual leave shall be posted at the beginning of each fiscal year.  All annual leave must be turned into the Superintendent for review and approval prior to taking anticipated annual leave.

 

Any unused annual leave paid at the time of retirement, termination, or discharge shall be paid to the employee or his/her heirs on or before the next regular payday for the pay cycle during which the employee was working at the time of separation or no later than fifteen (15) days following the date of termination, resignation, or retirement, whichever occurs first, at the employee's daily rate of pay.

 

GUIDELINES

 

  1. Employees who work a twelve-month fiscal year shall earn paid vacation days.

  2. Vacation time will be credited for twelve-month employees, on the first day he/she reports to work after the beginning of the fiscal year (July 1), according to the following schedule:

 

Years of Service

 

Vacation Leave

Less than 5 years

10 days

5 years but less than 9 years

14 days

9 years but less than 14 years

18 days

14 years or more

20 days

 

Individuals who become 12-month employees after the start of the fiscal year will earn vacation leave based on the percentage of the work year remaining at the time of employment.

 

  1. Employees shall request vacation leave in writing ten (10) days prior to the effective leave.  Vacation leave shall be granted unless work demands prohibit such.  If vacation leave is denied, the employee shall be allowed to reschedule within that same fiscal year.  Employees with the greatest seniority shall be granted his/her preferred vacation date(s) if possible.  An employee shall be allowed to take all of his/her earned vacation leave within a fiscal year.

  2. Under no circumstances shall a department become non-operational because too many employees are on vacation.  If there is a conflict that cannot be resolved by seniority, the Superintendent shall make the final decision.  It is the department supervisor’s responsibility to ensure that this does not happen to his/her department.

  3. Administrators shall not take vacation leave during the months of May and August.

  4. Employees may carry over up to twenty-five (25) unused vacation days from one fiscal year to the next.  An employee can only accumulate up to twenty-five vacations days.  Upon severance of employment, unused vacation days up to twenty-five (25) shall be paid to the employee as severance pay.

  5. With exception of the ten (10) days carried over up to a maximum of twenty-five days, all earned vacation days shall be taken during the fiscal year.  Any vacation days not taken during the fiscal year will be forfeited by the employee.

 

  1. The Superintendent may modify or amend procedures as applicable when local and state emergencies develop including:

 

 

The Superintendent shall inform the School Board of such changes.

 

  1. Administration recommendations - Additional Vacation Considerations:

    Stagger the number of allowable banked vacation days over the next couple years:

 

  1. July 2022—allow 40 days’ maximum rollover.

  2. July 2023—allow 30 days’ maximum rollover.

  3. July 2024—return to 25 days’ maximum rollover.

 

Revised:  December, 2005 Revised:  June 17, 2021
Revised:  April, 2007 Revised:  May 26, 2022
Revised:  July 16, 2020  

 

 

Ref:    La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§11:754, 11:786, 11:788, 17:81, 23:631

Board minutes, 10-20-05, 6-15-06, 3-15-07, 7-16-20, 6-17-21, 5-26-22

 

St. John the Baptist Parish School Board