HR highlights employee benefits
Beginning today and using the heading “Benefit in Brief,†HR will highlight a benefit or two each month throughout 2011-12 with the goal of educating or just reminding employees about the various benefits the university provides to us.
July’s Benefit in Brief
There are two types of paid time off that employees don’t often use or think about: bereavement leave and time off for jury duty. Both of these are included as benefits for regular employees who work half time or above.
- Up to five days of sick leave may be taken for bereavement upon the death of an immediate family member: spouse, child/stepchild, parent, step-parent, parent-in-law, sibling, step-sibling, sibling-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, grandparent or grandchild. For those times when employees lose loved ones who are not family members, they should arrange with their supervisors to either use vacation time or make up the time missed from work.
- Employees are paid for time to serve on jury duty as long as they turn in any pay received from the court (excluding pay for mileage). Employees are expected to be at work for any part of their shifts that they are not required to actively serve. Administrators and staff should note time away for jury duty on their time-off reports and time sheets.
Information about bereavement leave and time off for jury duty can be found in the Employee Handbook on pages 43 and 44.