In the event an employee is not eligible for FMLA or other leaves, and/or has exhausted available paid time (such as vacation, sick, and personal holiday), they must submit an Unpaid Leave Request Form to their department supervisor and HR. Such leaves may be granted on a case-by-case basis. After three months of employment, employees may request a non-medical leave of absence.
Employees who work at least twenty hours per week will be granted a paid leave of absence of up to forty hours if they seek to undergo a medical procedure to donate bone marrow or an organ. This leave may be taken on an intermittent basis. Employees must notify their supervisor, in advance, of the length of the leave, and notify HR so the appropriate steps and documentation can begin. A document from the physician verifying the purpose and length of the leave will be required.
Employees may be granted up to sixteen hours per year to attend school conferences or school-related activities of their children, provided these activities cannot be scheduled during non-work hours.
To be eligible for FMLA, an employee needs to have worked for at least one year and 1,250 hours in a rolling calendar year immediately preceding the request. FMLA leave allows eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks off for the following:
Sick Time Accrual: Benefit-eligible employees accrue Sick Time based on hours worked. Sick Time accrues at a rate of one hour for every twenty-one hours worked. Employees can carry over unused Sick Time to the next calendar year up to a maximum accumulation of sixty days.
Holidays: All benefit eligible staff are currently eligible for fourteen (14) paid college holidays and awarded up to two (2) personal holidays. Non-benefit eligible employees are not eligible for holiday or personal holiday pay.
College Holidays: Holidays are designated annually by the College. Each year, by November, a memo detailing the holiday schedule for the upcoming year will be released. The dates are also posted on the HR Intranet page.
MCAD employees who have worked at least 1,000 hours in the 12 month period immediately preceding the leave are eligible for parental leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Parental leave provides up to 12 weeks of time off. The leave will look different if the employee is a birthing parent, or non-birthing parent.
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