25 ncac 01e .1603          COVERED EMPLOYEES AND LEAVE CREDITS

(a)  A full-time employee with a permanent, probationary, trainee or time-limited appointment may be granted 24 hours of community service leave each calendar year, or in lieu of the 24 hours award, with the approval of the supervisor, an employee may be eligible to choose one of the following leave options:

(1)           Tutoring and Mentoring - up to one hour per week, not to exceed 36 hours in a calendar year; or

(2)           Literacy Program – up to five hours per month.

(b)  The 24 hours of paid leave shall be credited to employees on January 1 of each year, unless they choose the tutoring/mentoring option.  New employees shall be credited with leave immediately upon their employment, prorated at two hours per month for the remainder of the calendar year.  Separated employees who are reemployed within the same calendar year shall be credited leave the same as a newly hired employee; however, the combination of reemployment credit and total hours used prior to separation in the same calendar year shall not exceed the annual 24 hour maximum leave benefit.

(c)  Part-time (half time or more) employees with a permanent, probationary, trainee or time-limited appointment may be granted leave prorated proportionately to the percentage awarded to full-time employees.

(d)  If an employee chooses to change leave options from regular Community Service Leave to the special leave provisions for volunteering for the tutoring or mentoring program or the literacy program or vice versa, during the calendar year, the maximum hours allowed under the new option shall be reduced by the amount already used in the prior leave option.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 126-4;

Eff. April 1, 2001;

Amended Eff. May 1, 2015;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. October 4, 2016.