3354:2-20-54. Parental leave

Continuing Admin. & S/P	Temporary Admin. & S/P	Tenure-track Faculty	Non-tenure track Faculty
x Full-time	x Full-time	Full-time	Temporary
x Partial-year	x Partial year		Part-time
x Part-time	x Part-time
staff	staff
x Full-time	x Full-time
x Partial-year	x Partial-year
x Part-time	x Part-time

(A) Written application for parental leave shall be submitted in advance to the supervisor of record on a form provided by the human resources department.

(B) Eligible employees are entitled to at least twelve weeks of parental leave with the onset of an entitling event.

(C) Eligible employees may request additional weeks of parental leave beyond twelve not to exceed fifty two.

(D) Employees on parental leave must reduce accrued compensatory time, personal time, sick and vacation time in that order beginning with the first day of parental leave.

Employees may retain a maximum of eighty hours of sick time or eighty hours of vacation time or a combination of both so long as the total banked hours do not exceed eighty.

(E) College-paid health benefits will continue to be provided, at the same level of coverage, through the first twelve weeks of leave for employees on parental leave who were receiving college-paid health insurance benefits prior to the start of the parental leave.

(1) The cost of the college-paid health insurance benefits, provided during any portion of the twelve weeks when the employee was not receiving compensation, may be recovered from the employee if he/she fails to return from the leave for reasons other than an approved request for extension of the leave.

(2) College-paid dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurances will be continued so long as the employee is receiving compensation through the reduction of benefit time as noted in paragraph (D) of this policy.

(3) Employees on leave beyond the initial twelve, weeks will be eligible to continue receiving college-paid health insurance benefits so long as they are receiving compensation through the reduction of benefit time, as noted in paragraph (D) of this policy.

(F) Employees on paid parental leave and their dependents will remain eligible for fee waivers.

(G) The employee must be in satisfactory condition, physically and mentally, to resume his/her duties. At the conclusion of the leave the employee will return to the former position or to another position (possible in a different department or shift) in the same classification, unless the former position has been eliminated due to lack of work or funds.

A temporary status employee on parental leave at the time the assignment concludes, due to either a lack of work or funds, is not guaranteed re-employment in another position.

(H) Employment while on a leave from work will be cause for termination unless specifically approved by the vice president for human resources and organizational development.

(I) Failure to return to work at the end of the leave shall be considered a resignation.

(J) Employee eligibility

(1) Full or part-time continuing status employees

Eligible for a parental leave no less frequently than upon completion of one thousand two hundrede fifty work hours within the preceding twelve month period.

(2) Temporary status employees

Temporary status employees are eligible for a parental leave if they have been employed at the college for twelve months (do not have to be consecutive) and worked at least one thousand two hundred fifty hours in the twelve consecutive months preceding the requested start date of the leave.

(K) Entitling events

Eligible employees are entitled to parental leave for the birth of a child, or placement of a child for adoption or foster care.

Entitlement to parental leave expires twelve months after the date of birth or placement.

Replaces: 3354:2-20-54

Effective: 5/3/2004
Promulgated Under: 111.15
Statutory Authority: 3354
Rule Amplifies: 3354
Prior Effective Dates: 1/15/98, 3/6/03