Sick Leave

Sick leave is credited to employees who are working, on paid leave, or on Workers’ Compensation leave and meet one of the following criteria:

• Full time and part-time permanent SHRA (Staff Subject to the Human Resources Act) employees, persons in time-limited appointments, trainees, and probationary employees.
• Permanent Senior Academic and Administrative Officers (SAAO), Exempt Professional Staff (EPS), and 12-month faculty employees, who work between 20 hours per week (.5 FTE) and 40 hours per week (1.0 FTE), and are employed on a 9, 10, 11, or 12 month Appointment; Research Associate (Post-doc), Teaching Associate (Post-doc), (Post-doc) Intern and Resident (Post-doc) employees.
• Note: 9 month faculty do not earn leave. Visit the PRR website for more information.

Sick Leave may be used for:

• Illness or injury
• Medical appointments
• Temporary disability due to childbirth
• Care for members of immediate family (including care for mother during temporary disability)
• Death of immediate family member
• Donations to a member of the immediate family and non-family members who are approved to receive voluntary shared leave
• Adoption of a child, limited to a maximum of 30 days for each parent (which is equivalent to a biological mother’s average period of disability)
  • Note: This is interpreted to mean at the time of physical possession of a child, who has either been adopted or is in the process of being adopted.

• Full-time permanent, probationary, and time-limited employees are eligible for leave at the rate of 8 hours per month (96 hours per year).
• Part-time (half-time or more) permanent, probationary, and time-limited employees are eligible for leave at a prorated amount.

Sick leave accumulates indefinitely. Annual leave in excess of 240 hours (prorated for part-time employees) on December 31 of each year shall be converted to sick leave.

Note: Faculty employees who change from 12-month to 9-month employment status, visit the PRR website for information.

Employees must enter sick leave weekly into the WolfTime Leave and Timekeeping system upon use for supervisors approval.