FILE: GBRK
ANNUAL LEAVE
All full-time personnel employed on a 12-month basis by the Vermilion Parish School Board shall be entitled to annual leave in accordance with the following schedule, based on continuous years of service, with a year being considered the fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30:
Less than three (3) years of continuous service, at the rate of one (1) day per month for a total of twelve (12) days per year.
Three (3) years but less than ten (10) years of continuous service at the rate of one and one-fourth (1¼) days per month for a total of fifteen (15) days per year.
Ten (10) or more years of continuous service at the rate of one and one-half (1½) days per month for a total of eighteen (18) days per year.
Nine (9) and ten (10) month employees working in the system who are hired as twelve (12) month employees shall receive credit for their years of service in the system in computing annual leave earned.
Annual leave earned after June 30, 2002, shall be accrued to a maximum of forty (40) days. Annual leave earned prior to June 30, 2002, shall not be subject to this limitation and will be available in full for use by employees. Leave accrued prior to June 30, 2002, may not be used until leave accrued subsequent to that date has been fully exhausted, however.
All annual leave must be requested in writing on the approved Application for Leave form. The Application for Leave must be submitted to the Superintendent or his/her designee well in advance of the anticipated beginning date of leave (whenever possible). Employees should work with the appropriate supervisor in arranging for annual leave. Administrative personnel shall take into consideration the services to be rendered by the employee when arranging for annual leave and will make every effort to allow the requested annual leave.
Employees shall not be allowed to use in excess of eighteen (18) consecutive days of annual leave unless approved by the Superintendent. However, if a management employee had accrued more than one hundred (100) days of annual leave under the pre-June 30, 2002 rules, the employee may take a maximum of fifty (50) days of annual leave in a year.
Upon retirement, resignation, or termination of employment, the employee may choose to be paid for any unused accumulated annual leave at the employee’s daily rate of pay or may convert such unused accumulated annual leave to service credit for retirement purposes if allowed by the retirement system. If the employee chooses the service credit conversion option, the statutes and regulations related to the respective retirement system will apply. If the employee chooses to be paid for unused annual leave, payment shall be made to the employee or his/her heirs on or before the next regular pay cycle during which the employee was working at the time of separation or no later than fifteen (15) days following the date of separation, whichever occurs first.
DEFERRED RETIREMENT OPTION PROGRAM (DROP)
Any employee of the Vermilion Parish School Board who participates in the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) shall be eligible for and may elect to receive on a one-time basis payment for unused annual leave upon entering DROP on the same basis as any other employee who retires or otherwise leaves employment; otherwise, any accrued annual leave shall be paid only upon final retirement of the employee.
Adopted: July 20, 2016
Ref: La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§11:754, 11:786, 11:788, 17:81, 17:425.1, 23:631
Board minutes, 6-20-02, 7-20-16
Vermilion Parish School Board