Personal Leave Program. 1992
A. Personal Leave shall be requested and used by the employee in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Requests to use Personal Leave must be submitted in accordance with departmental policies on vacation or annual leave. Employees may not be required to use Personal Leave credits.
B. At the discretion of the State, all or a portion of unused Personal Leave credits may be cashed out at the employee's salary rate at the time the Personal Leave payment is made. It is understood by both parties that the application of this cash-out provision may differ from department to department and from employee to employee. Departments shall consider an employee's request to retain leave credits for future use rather than have the leave cashed out. Upon termination from State employment, the employee shall be paid for unused Personal Leave credits in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Cash-out or lump-sum payment for any Personal Leave credits shall not be considered as "compensation" for purposes of retirement. If funds become available for the Personal Leave Program, departments will offer employees the opportunity to cash out accrued Personal Leave.
C. If any dispute arises about this Personal Leave section, an employee may file a grievance and the decision reached at Step 3 (Department of Personnel Administration) of the grievance procedure shall be final and not subject to the arbitration clause of this Contract.
D. Personal Leave credits shall not be counted towards the 1,734/1,934 hours of compensation for Special School employees subject to the State Special Schools 10-Month Compensation Agreement.
Personal Leave Program. Effective October 1, 2003, the State shall implement a mandatory personal leave program for all unit employees. This program shall remain in effect for 12 months. Employees may voluntarily participate in the personal leave program on a continuing basis.
a. Each full-time employee subject to paragraph b. shall be credited with eight (8) hours of Personal Leave on the first day of the following monthly pay period for each month in the Personal Leave Program (PLP).
b. Salary ranges and rates shall be changed to reflect the July 1, 2003 general salary increase; however, each full-time employee shall continue to work his/her assigned work schedule and shall have a reduction in pay equal to 5%. In exchange 8 hours of leave will be credited to the employee’s PLP monthly.
c. Personal leave shall be requested and used by the employee in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Requests to use personal leave must be submitted in accordance with departmental policies on vacation and annual leave balances pursuant to Article 5 (Leaves) and Sections 5.4 (Vacation Leave) and 5.12 (Annual Leave).
d. At the discretion of the State, all or a portion of unused personal leave credits may be cashed out at the employee’s salary rate at the time the personal leave payment is made. It is understood by both parties that the application of this cash out provision may differ from department to department and from employee to employee. Upon termination from State employment, the employee shall be paid for unused personal leave credits in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Cash out or lump sum payment for any Personal Leave credits shall not be considered as “compensation” for purposes of retirement. If funds become available, as determined by the Department of Finance, for the Personal Leave program, departments will offer employees the opportunity to cash out accrued personal leave. Upon retirement/separation, the cash value of the employees personal leave balance may be transferred into a State of California, Department of Human Resources Defined Contribution plans as permitted.
e. An employee may not use any kind of paid leave such as sick leave, vacation, or holiday time to avoid a reduction in pay resulting from the Personal Leave Program.
f. A State employee in the Personal Leave Program shall be entitled to the same level of State employer contributions for health, vision, dental, flex-elect cash option, and enhanced survivor’s benefits he or she would have rece...
Personal Leave Program. 2010 Addendum – CDCR, OCE (Unit 3)
Personal Leave Program. 1992 and 2003 (Unit 21)
A. Personal leave shall be requested and used by the employee in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Requests to use personal leave must be submitted in accordance with departmental policies on vacation or annual leave. Employees shall not be required to use personal leave credits.
B. At the discretion of the State, all or a portion of unused personal leave credits may be cashed out at the employee’s salary rate at the time the personal leave payment is made. It is understood by both parties that the application of this cash-out provision may differ from department to department and from employee to employee. Departments shall consider an employee’s request to retain leave credits for future use rather than have the leave cashed out. Upon termination from State employment, the employee shall be paid for unused personal leave credits in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Cash-out or lump-sum payment for any personal leave credits shall not be considered as “compensation” for purposes of retirement. If funds become available, as determined by the DOF, for the Personal Leave Program, departments will offer employees the opportunity to cash out accrued personal leave. Upon retirement/separation, the cash value of the employee’s personal leave balance may be transferred into a State of California, CalHR Deferred Compensation Program as permitted by federal and state law.
C. If any dispute arises about this personal leave section, an employee may file a grievance and the decision reached at Step 3 (CalHR) of the grievance procedure shall be final and not subject to the arbitration clause of this Contract.
D. An employee may request, due to personal hardship, all or a portion of unused personal leave credits to be cashed out at the employee’s salary rate at the time the personal leave payment is made. Upon termination from State employment, the employee shall be paid for unused personal leave credits in the same manner as vacation leave. Cash-out or lump-sum payment for any personal leave credits shall not be considered as “compensation” for purposes of retirement.
Personal Leave Program. 2020 Effective on the first day of the pay period following ratification, through June 2022 pay period, Bargaining Unit (BU) 16 employees will be subject to the Personal Leave Program 2020 (PLP 2020) for 2-days pr 16 hours per month in the manner outlined below. PLP 2020 shall have not cash value and may not be cashed out.
A. Each full-time BU16 employee shall continue to work their assigned work schedule and shall have a reduction in pay equal to 9.23%.
B. Each full-time BU16 employee shall be credited with 16 hours of PLP 2020 on the first day of each pay period for the duration of the PLP 2020 program.
C. Salary rates and salary ranges shall remain unchanged.
D. Employees will be given discretion to use PLP 2020 subject to operational considerations.
1. Where feasible, employees should use the leave in the pay period it was earned.
2. PLP 2020 time must be used before any other leave with the exception of sick leave.
3. Employees may elect to use PLP 2020 in lieu of approved sick leave.
4. PLP 2020 shall be requested and used in the same manner as vacation/annual leave.
5. Subject to the above, requests for use of PLP 2020 leave must be submitted in accordance with departmental policies on vacation/annual leave.
E. Whenever feasible, a BU16 employee’s separation date should be extended to ensure all leave earned under PLP 2020 is used prior to separation. Appointing powers may schedule BU 16 employees to take PLP 2020 time off to meet the intent of this section. On rare occasions when a BU 16 employee separates from state service, and has accumulated PLP 2020 hours which cannot be used prior to separation, these unused hours must be cashed out at the time of the BU16 employee’s separation.
F. Time during which an employee is excused from work because of PLP 2020 time shall not be considered as “time worked” for purposes of determining the number of hours worked in a work week.
G. A BU16 employee shall be entitled to the same level of State employer contributions for health, vision, dental, flex-elect cash option, and enhanced survivor’s benefits they would have received has the PLP 2020 not occurred.
H. PLP 2020 shall not cause a break in State service, a reduction in the employee’s accumulation of service credit for the purposes of seniority and retirement, leave accumulation, or a merit salary adjustment.
I. PLP 2020 shall neither affect a BU16 employee’s final compensation used in calculating State retirement benefits nor reduce the level of State d...
Personal Leave Program. 10.17.1 The employer agrees that, for those employees that earned PLP Credits and retain PLP balances, those PLP balances will be carried as a separate leave balance until;
10.17.1.1 The employee opts to use the leave credits for a paid absence(s) in accordance with the Department's vacation policy, or
10.17.1.2 The employer exercises its option to cash-out the PLP credits, or
10.17.1.3 The employee retires and/or leaves state service and the PLP credits are liquidated.
Personal Leave Program. A. Existing Personal Leave Program balances (PLP) (e.g. 1992, 2003, 2010, 2011/furlough and 2012) will continue to be tracked individually for each Unit 6 employee on their monthly paycheck.
B. 1992-1995 PLP Employees shall retain their personal leave balances from the PLP established under Section 16.13 of the 1992-1995 MOU. Employees may continue to request use of PLP credits in accordance with departmental policies for requesting the use of vacation. Fifty percent (50%) of the personal leave balance described in Section 16.13 of the 1992- 1995 MOU accrued by the employee, is not subject to State-initiated buyback without prior approval of the employee.
C. 2010-2012 PLP The use of the PLP time is subject to supervisory approval, except that appointing powers shall ensure that all PLP time is scheduled and taken prior to separation from State service. PLP time shall be requested and used by the employee in the same manner as vacation/annual leave. Request for use of PLP time must be submitted in accordance with departmental policies on vacation/annual leave. Appointing powers may schedule employees to take PLP time off to meet the intent of this section. PLP time shall not be included in the calculation of vacation/annual leave balances pursuant to Article X (Leaves). Time during which an employee is excused from work because of PLP time shall not be considered as “time worked” for purposes of determining the number of hours worked in a work week. This leave shall be applied consistent with Appendix #11. Separation: PLP upon separation shall be subject to the March 26, 2013 PML entitled Unused 2012, 2010, Furlough Hours as referenced in Appendix #8.
Personal Leave Program. A. Personal leave shall be requested and used by the employee in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Requests to use personal leave must be submitted in accordance with departmental policies on vacation or annual leave.
B. At the discretion of the State, all or a portion of unused personal leave credits may be cashed out at the employee's salary rate at the time the personal leave payment is made. It is understood by both parties that the application of this cash out provision may differ from department to department and from employee to employee. Upon termination from State employment, the employee shall be paid for unused personal leave credits in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Cash out or lump sum payment for any personal leave credits shall not be considered as "compensation" for purposes of retirement.
C. A State employee in the personal leave program shall be entitled to the same level of State employer contributions for health, vision, dental, flex-elect cash option, and enhanced survivors benefits he/she would have received had the personal leave program not occurred.
D. The personal leave program shall not cause a break in State service, a reduction in the employee's accumulation of service credit for the purposes of seniority and retirement, leave accumulation, or a merit salary adjustment.
E. The personal leave program shall neither affect the employee's final compensation used in calculating State retirement benefits nor reduce the level of State death or disability benefits the employee would otherwise receive or be entitled to receive nor shall it affect the employee's ability to supplement those benefits with paid leave.
Personal Leave Program. A. Personal leave shall be requested and used by the employee in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Requests to use personal leave must be submitted in accordance with departmental policies on vacation or annual leave.
B. Unused personal leave credits may be cashed out at the employees salary rate at the time the personal leave payment is made. Upon termination from State employment, the employee shall be paid for unused personal leave credits in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Cash out or lump sum payment for any Personal Leave credits shall not be considered as “compensation” for purposes of retirement. Departments may offer employees the opportunity to cash out accrued personal leave.
Personal Leave Program. A. All Personal Leave accrued by Unit 15 employees under the provision of the Personal Leave Plan during the 1992-95 Memorandum of Understanding shall remain in employees’ leave balances until such time as it is cashed out at the discretion of the employer, used as paid time off by the employee or until the employee retires or terminates employment.
B. Personal leave shall be requested and used by the employee in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Requests to use personal Leave must be submitted in accordance with departmental policies on vacation or annual leave.
C. At the discretion of the State, all or a portion of unused Personal Leave credits may be cashed out at the employee's salary rate at the time the Personal Leave payment is made. It is understood by both parties that the application of this cash out provision may differ from department to department and from employee to employee. Departments shall give consideration to an employee's request to retain leave credits for future use rather than have the leave cashed out. Upon termination from State employment, the employee shall be paid for unused Personal Leave credits in the same manner as vacation or annual leave. Cash out or lump sum payment for any Personal Leave credits shall not be considered as compensation for purposes of retirement.
