The Daily Bruin

When there is an emergency campus closure, usually due to inclement weather as was the case from late afternoon Thursday, Feb. 6, through mid-morning Monday, Feb. 10, 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 during the open hours 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 or for other reasons (such as Scholarship Competition), will be given time off within the following 30 days equal to the time they worked during the closure.

Staff should record only hours worked on their time sheets for Thursday, Feb. 6, through Monday, Feb. 10. If you were not required to be at work while the university was closed, please record only hours worked until 4 p.m. Thursday and no hours prior to 10 a.m. on Monday. You will be paid your regularly scheduled hours between those times.

When you take corresponding time off, please enter the hours taken in the Holiday row of the specific day, so that it doesn’t show as hours worked, sick leave or vacation. Then please note on the time sheet that these were “snow hours.”

Please note: Employees who happened to be on vacation or using sick leave the day of these closures should record those days/hours as vacation or sick leave, just as they would have had the campus been open.

Questions? Please email hr@georgefox.edu.

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