The Daily Bruin

When there is an emergency campus closure, usually due to inclement weather as was the case Monday, Jan, 4, the university’s policy indicates the following in the Employee Handbook, Section 7.1 Emergency Closure:

• If the university is closed, employees are paid as if they worked.
• If the university has a late opening and/or early closure, employees who work are paid for a full work day.
• If employees cannot make it in, their absence is covered by the use of vacation or is unpaid if vacation is not available.
• Employees who are required to work to assist with facilities and safety issues as a result of the weather (primarily plant services employees) will be given time off within the following 30 days equal to the time they worked during the closure.

A revised staff time sheet for January has been posted to the Human Resources webpage. If you have already started your January time sheet, please download and use the revised form. Staff should mark their time sheets with hours worked only on the day of the closure. If you were not required to be at work, please record only hours worked through the end of your regular daily work period. You will be paid your scheduled hours between those times.

Staff who normally report to work before 8 a.m. should specify their regular work day start and end times in the designated area on the revised January time sheet.

If you were required to be at work, please make a notation on the bottom of your time card of the number of hours you were required to work during the two-hour closure. Later, please enter the equivalent hours taken off in the bottom section of the specific day’s time, so that it doesn’t show as hours worked, sick leave, or vacation. Then please write on the time sheet that these were “snow hours.”

Please note: Employees who happen to be on vacation or using sick leave the day of a closure should record those days/hours as vacation or sick leave the same as they would had the campus been open.

Please email Katie Sol at ksol@georgefox.edu with any additional questions.

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