FILE:  F-11.11

VACATION (ANNUAL LEAVE)

All full-time twelve (12) month employees of the City of Baker School Board shall earn annual leave with pay per fiscal year (July 1 - June 30) as follows:

Annual leave shall be earned and credited to the employee on a pro-rata basis at the end of each pay period. Requests for annual leave must be approved by the Superintendent or his/her designee prior to an employee taking any annual leave.  All continuous employment as a nine-month or ten-month employee shall count in accumulating length of service to determine annual leave earned upon becoming a twelve-month employee.

Annual leave may be accumulated and carried forward as earned up to a maximum of fifty (50) working days.  Upon termination, resignation, or retirement, unused annual leave shall be paid at its daily rate when annual leave was earned.  Payment shall be made 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 separation, whichever occurs first.

DEFERRED RETIREMENT OPTION PROGRAM (DROP)

Any employee of the City of Baker 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.

Revised:  November, 2001

Revised:  January, 2003

Revised:  April, 2003

Revised:  November, 2003

Ref:     La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§11:754, 11:786, 11:788, 17:81, 17:425.1, 23:631

Board minutes, 1-21-03

City of Baker School District