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Series 400
Policy Title: Classified Employee Vacations – Holidays – Personal Leave
Code No. 414.1
The Board will determine the amount of vacation, holidays and personal leave that will be allowed on an annual basis for classified employees.
Classified employees will be paid only for the hours they would have been scheduled for the day. Vacation will not be carried forward from year to year without a prior arrangement with the Superintendent.
It is the responsibility of the Superintendent to make a recommendation to the Board annually on vacation and personal leave for all classified employees.
The requirements stated in the Master Contract between employees in the classified collective bargaining unit and the Board regarding vacations, holidays, and personal leave of such employees will be followed.
Approved: April 13, 2004
Reviewed: May 14, 2019
Revised: June 13, 2017
Legal Reference: Iowa Code §§ 1C; 4.1(34); 20.
Cross Reference: 409.1 Licensed Employee Vacations - Holidays - Personal Leave; 601.1 School Calendar
STAFF PERSONNEL
SUPPORT
Series 400
Administrative Regulation: Classified Employee Vacations – Holidays – Personal Leave Code No. 414.1R(L)
The Board will determine the amount of vacation, holidays, and personal leave that will be allowed on an annual basis for classified employees.
Classified employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement shall follow stipulations regarding holidays, vacations, and personal leave as detailed in the Master Agreement of the appropriate bargaining group and their individual contracts.
Other classified employees requiring 260 days including Administrative Secretaries, Project Assistant, and Technology Support Specialist, shall accrue ten (10) days of paid vacation each fiscal year, increasing to fifteen (15) days after 5 full fiscal years of service, and twenty (20) days after 10 full fiscal years of service. The Assistant Transportation Director shall accrue fifteen (15) days of paid vacation each fiscal year, increasing to twenty (20) days after 10 full fiscal years of service.
In addition, these positions shall receive ten (10) paid holidays, including New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day (2), Christmas Day (2), New Year’s Eve, and one floating holiday. Employees in these positions that may need to work on a holiday shall be allowed to float that holiday to another day with approval by the Superintendent or designated representative.
Vacation earned throughout any fiscal year shall be expended before the end of the next fiscal year. Any variation from these provisions must be approved by the Superintendent or a designated representative.
Any classified employee who has earned vacation, and whose service with the District is terminated at a time when there is no opportunity for the earned vacation to be taken, shall be entitled to be paid a regular salary for the vacation days earned.
Other classified employees are also provided two (2) days personal leave.
Approved: June 28, 2005
Reviewed: May 14, 2019
Revised: August 12, 2008