SUPPORT STAFF LEAVES AND ABSENCES/VACATIONS AND HOLIDAYS
This policy applies to regular employees and does not apply to temporary or
substitute staff. All leave and vacation time except sick leave requires prior
approval of the Building Principal (if applicable) and Superintendent.
PERSONAL LEAVE
Two days for personal, religious, legal business, household or family matters,
which require absence during school hours.
BEREAVEMENT LEAVE
Up to five days at any one time in the event of death or serious illness
(serious illness means an accident, disease or condition that poses imminent
danger of death or requires hospitalization, etc.) of immediate family to be
approved by the Superintendent or in his/her absence by the Building Principal.
The immediate family is defined as parents, grandparents, sons, daughters,
aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, respective in-laws, grandchildren and spouse.
Leave other than the immediate family may be granted with the approval of the
Building Principal, Superintendent and Board.
SICK LEAVE
Ten days per year accumulative to 50 days. Employees covered by the Maine State
Retirement System may accumulate all unused sick leave days for retirement
purposes only.
Employees may use sick leave days, during their work year, for family illness of
a non-serious nature.
VACATION
Employees will receive paid vacation on a prorated basis according to days
scheduled to work as follows:
DAYS SCHEDULED TO WORK
VACATION DAYS
87 – 111
4
112 – 136
5
137 – 161
6
162 – 186
7
187 – 208
8
209 – 233
9
234 and up
10
Vacation pay will be based on the employee’s normal workday and hourly wage not
to exceed 8 hours pay per day. Vacation will normally be taken on non-school
days and within the year in which it is earned.
HOLIDAYS
Employees will receive pay for all holidays, which occur in a scheduled
workweek. Only employees who are employed for 52 weeks per year will receive pay
for those holidays that fall during scheduled student vacations. Observed
holidays are as follows:
1. July 4
2. Labor Day
3. Columbus Day
4. Veteran’s Day
5. Thanksgiving Day
6. Friday following Thanksgiving Day
7. Christmas Day
8. New Year’s Day
9. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
10. Washington’s Birthday (President’s Day)
11. Patriot’s Day
12. Memorial Day
Any holiday falling on a Saturday will be observed on the preceding Friday and
any holiday falling on a Sunday will be observed on the following Monday.
DATE ADOPTED: July 1, 2003
DATE REVISED: November 18, 2004
DATE REVISED: August 25, 2005