Annual Leave

Full-time, non-instructional employees (salary schedules A, B, C, and E) and permanent, part-time employees (salary schedule H) are eligible to accrue annual leave. Full-time personnel earn annual leave monthly at the following rates:

Salary Schedule H employees shall receive monthly annual leave under the same terms and conditions as other eligible employees, four hours for employees working 20-24 hours, five hours for employees working 25-29 hours, six hours for employees working 30-34 hours, and seven hours for employees working 35-39 hours.

Personnel must be in paid status for a minimum of one-half of the workdays in the month of employment to accrue annual leave, except those absent for Family and Medical Leave purposes as designated by the President. Leave accrual rate changes will only take effect upon the beginning of the new leave year, September 1. In order to move to the next year of service for annual leave accrual purposes, an employee must have worked at least nine months of the leave accrual year. A “year of service” as it applies to annual leave shall be a completed year of service at the current employing entity, not based on experience or service at other employers. All new hires of NACC will begin accrual of annual leave at zero years of service with one exception: The President, upon request of a new employee within the first 90 days of employment, may award additional years of service for annual leave accrual purposes to an employee who has been hired directly from one ACCS college or the ACCS system office to NACC with no time lapse between dates of employment. The years of service awarded under this exception cannot be more than the number of years that the employee was employed at the ACCS system office or prior ACCS institution. This policy is not applicable to employees hired from other locations or entities, and the President is under no obligation to award the additional years of service. Employees who worked previously at NACC and earned annual leave, then left employment at the college for a period, and return later to a position earning annual leave at the institution will begin earning annual leave at 8 hours per month with no credit given for the previous time at the institution.

Earned annual leave may be taken at appropriate times as approved in advance by the President or designee. Annual leave shall be requested and approved prior to its occurrence and may be denied if it is not timely requested or hampers the routine operations of the College.

A maximum of 480 hours (60 days) of annual leave may be carried forward into each new leave year. Accrued annual leave may exceed 480 hours during a year; however, annual leave exceeding 480 hours earned but not taken before September 1 is forfeited.

A maximum of 480 hours of annual leave is payable upon separation from service.

Any employee who leaves employment will be paid for the actual number of annual leave days earned and unused up to a maximum of 480 hours. Payment of annual leave will be based on the employee’s salary in effect at the time of separation. The maximum hours to be carried forward annually or paid for Salary Schedule H employees cannot exceed 60 days based on their assigned salary schedule.